Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

Guardians across the seas of the ideals for which throughout the centuries Greeks have lived and died, Americans today are aware that the Greek nation is again fighting for the principles of justice truth and liberty, without which life for us is inconceivable.

Context

Letter from the King of Greece

12/02/1940

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