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FDR revolutionized political communication with his 'Fireside Chats. ' He spoke directly to the American people in simple, reassuring language, explaining complex policies and asking for their help. He understood that leadership is a partnership. 'I cannot do it alone. ' He teaches that a great leader must be a great communicator, capable of making every citizen feel personally involved in the destiny of the nation.
"We are going to make a country in which no one is left out."
"I am not the smartest man in the world, but I can surely pick smart colleagues."
"I am not for a return to that definition of liberty under which for many years a free people were being gradually regimented into the service of the privileged few."
"No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is the President of all the people."
"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."
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
"Great power involves great responsibility."
"Confidence is the only bond that can unite a people."
"The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths."
"In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up, or else we all go down, as one people."
"We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all our citizens, whatever their background."
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