FDR: “To warble easy platitudes that if we would only go back to ways that…”

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To warble easy platitudes that if we would only go back to ways that have failed, everything would be all right--is not courage.

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Democratic · New York

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Roosevelt criticizes the idea of returning to failed policies as a false notion of courage.

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