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acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia (June 27, 1936) ed. Samuel I. Rosenman, The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt 13 vols., New York (1938-1950)annual message to Congress The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Speeches, ed. Brian MacArthur (1992)annual message to Congress (Jan. 4, 1933) ed. Samuel I. Rosenman, The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 13 volumes, New York (1938-1950)Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Politics of Upheaval Houghton Mifflin Co. (1960)David Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy: 1932-1945 Oxford University Press (1979)

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You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat; but it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you mustn't suffer from being wrong. That's what kills people like us.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. This advice given to Raymond Moley prompted Moley to muse that FDR was like a fairytale prince who did not know how to shudder. William E. Leutchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal: 1932-1940, p. 168, Harper & Row (1963).

Many people who observed the President in the early days of the New Deal marvelled at his serenity and his ability to confront national problems with an ease which made them believe that with him at the helm, no problem was insoluble.

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