“We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fireside chat on national defense (May 26, 1940), reported in The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 (1941), p. 240
1940s

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32nd President of the United States 1882–1945

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