“Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.”

—  Franklin D. Roosevelt

1930s, First Inaugural Address (1933)

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32nd President of the United States 1882–1945

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