Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

The people of Iceland hold a proud position among the democracies of the world, with a historic tradition of freedom and of individual liberty which is more than a thousand years old.

Context

Transmittal to Congress of the President's Response to the Prime Minister of Iceland

07/06/1941

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