Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

We Americans realize how tenuous would be the existence of our party system, our freedom of elections, our freedom of living, if the doctrines of dictatorship were to prevail.

Context

Radio Address from the U.S.S. Potomac for Jackson Day Dinners

03/28/1941

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