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  2. 1941 State of the Union Address - Wikipedia

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    The 1941 State of the Union address was delivered by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, on January 6, 1941.Roosevelt warned of unprecedented global threats from Axis powers during World War II and introduced his vision of the Four Freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

  3. Franklin D. Roosevelt - Wikipedia

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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt [a] (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president, and the only one to have served more than two terms.

  4. 1936 Madison Square Garden speech - Wikipedia

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    The 1936 Madison Square Garden speech was a speech given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on October 31, 1936, three days before that year's presidential election.In the speech, Roosevelt pledged to continue the New Deal and criticized those who, in his view, were putting personal gain and politics over national economic recovery from the Great Depression.

  5. Four Freedoms - Wikipedia

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    The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park is a park designed by the architect Louis Kahn for the south point of Roosevelt Island. [20] The park celebrates the famous speech, and text from the speech is inscribed on a granite wall in the final design of the park.

  6. The Strenuous Life - Wikipedia

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    Roosevelt states the main point of his speech in the opening remarks: I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and ...

  7. Fireside chats - Wikipedia

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    The fireside chats were a series of evening radio addresses given by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, between 1933 and 1944.Roosevelt spoke with familiarity to millions of Americans about recovery from the Great Depression, the promulgation of the Emergency Banking Act in response to the banking crisis, the 1936 recession, New Deal initiatives, and the course of ...

  8. 1936 State of the Union Address - Wikipedia

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    That individual was Josiah Royce in his 1914 work "A Word for the Times," which Roosevelt quoted by saying "What great crises teach all men whom the example and counsel of the brave inspire is the lesson: Fear not, view all the tasks of life as sacred, have faith in the triumph of the ideal, give daily all that you have to give, be loyal and ...

  9. 1940 State of the Union Address - Wikipedia

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    The 1940 State of the Union Address was given by the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, on Wednesday, January 3, 1940, to both houses of 76th United States Congress. It was given after World War II had begun, but before the fall of France, and about a year before the United States entered the war.. He said, "You are ...