“We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.”

1940s, Fourth inaugural address (1945)

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32nd President of the United States 1882–1945

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