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Pearl Harbor

December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy ... no matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people, in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory.

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Battle of Midway June 4-7, 1942

They had no right to win. Yet they did, and in doing so they changed the course of a war ... even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit, a magic blend of skill, faith and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

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The War's End

Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain death - the seas bear only commerce - men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world is quietly at peace.

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

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The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, or one party, or one nation ... it must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

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We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.

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They (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers ... call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

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Among American citizens there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.

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I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.

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Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.

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In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice ... the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.

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No country, however rich can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.

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I pledge you. I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

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This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

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Franklin's Illness

Give him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never-ending persistence.

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We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.

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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final world in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

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Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.

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I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example of the world.

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If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.

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True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.

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We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

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We are determined here in montgomery to work and fight until justice runs "down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream".

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Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

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It is not enough to say, "We must not wage war." It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace.

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I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits.

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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

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Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

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Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.

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Where liberty is, there is my country.

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