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FDR: “Dictatorship, however, involves costs which the American people will never pay: The cost of our spiritual values.”

On the recordJanuary 3, 1939
Dictatorship, however, involves costs which the American people will never pay: The cost of our spiritual values.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Annual Message to Congress

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