“The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

1940s, Third Inaugural Address (1941)
Context: Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.

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32nd President of the United States 1882–1945

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