Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

Clearly he thereby sought, with a generous emphasis, to mark the full measure of his faith in those principles of freedom and justice which the country was founded to preserve.

Context

Message to Congress on the Bequest to the Nation by Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.

04/24/1935

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