06/29/1943
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"I must confess that I do so with mixed feelings—because I find myself, as almost everyone does sooner or later in his lifetime, in a conflict between deep personal desire for retirement on the one han..."
"It is our credo-unshakable to the end—that we must live under the liberties that were first heralded by Magna Carta and placed into glorious operation through the Declaration of Independence."
"It was my firm intention to turn over the responsibilities of Government to other hands at the end of my term."
"I do not believe for a moment, and I know that you do not believe either, that we have fully answered all the needs of human security."