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Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt Address at San Diego Exposition (1935)

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This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly.

We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

On this tenth day of June, 1940, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free.

Throughout the world, change is the order of the day.

State of the Union address (1935)

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