FDR: “The United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of…”

On the recordJuly 3, 1941

The United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship.

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Democratic · New York

Source

Address at Hyde Park, New York.

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