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Warfare Quotes
It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishin...
Greed Quotes
Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated. (18)
American Exceptionalism Quotes
This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. (4)
Man and the Natural World Quotes
Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. (16)
Fear Quotes
So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into...