Address at a Union Dinner. Washington
09/22/1944
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Too many of those who prate about saving democracy are really only interested in saving things as they were.
New ideas cannot be administered successfully by men with old ideas, for the first essential of doing a job well is the wish to see the job ...
Above all things, in a time grown too solemn and somber he brought his countrymen back to a sense of proportion.
Let me warn you now, as I warned you two years ago in my address at Syracuse, against the type of smooth evasion which says: 'Of course we b...