“We are committed to the proposition that principles of morality and considerations for our own security will never permit us to acquiesce in a peace dictated by aggressors and sponsored by appeasers. We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.”

—  Franklin D. Roosevelt

1940s, State of the Union Address — The Four Freedoms (1941)

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