I believe with Abraham Lincoln, that 'The legitimate object of Government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all or cannot do so well for themselves in their separate and individual capacities.'
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Improved standards of nutrition, increased levels of farm incomes, avoidance of agricultural surpluses—these are among the important objectives that the Food and Agriculture Organization will assist the Nations of the world in achieving.
I do know it will come, and I do know that tonight there are over seven and a half million Americans overseas or fighting afloat in this great war.
The logic of events and our clear and pressing national interest must override our old party controversies.
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