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A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man".

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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governor of New York, campaign address before the Republican-for-Roosevelt League, New York City, November 3, 1932. The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1928–1932, p. 860 (1938). The man whom Roosevelt quotes is probably Macaulay

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