Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

Even in times as troubled and uncertain as these, I still hold to the faith that a better civilization than any we have known is in store for America and by our example, perhaps, for the world.

Context

Address on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Statue of Liberty

10/27/1936

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