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FDR: Overwhelmingly we, as a nation—and this applies to all the other American nations—are convinced that military and naval…

On the recordJune 9, 1940
Overwhelmingly we, as a nation—and this applies to all the other American nations—are convinced that military and naval victory for the gods of force and hate would endanger the institutions of democracy in the western world.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Address at University of Virginia

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