Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1930s, First Inaugural Address (1933)
“Only the idea of God gives me the confidence that morality will become reality on earth. And because I cannot live without this confidence, I cannot live without God.”
Source: Reason and Hope: Selections from the Jewish Writings of Hermann Cohen (1971), p. 5
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