Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

We also mark for posterity our pride in his faith in American democracy, his confidence in the power of our legal institutions to realize, when rightly used, the highest American ideals.

Context

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

04/24/1935

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