Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

If we are to survive, we cannot be soft in a world in which there are dangers that threaten Americans—dangers far more deadly than were those that the frontiersmen had to face.

Context

Address at Dedication of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

09/01/1940

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