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FDR: “I, for one, do not believe that mere force will be successful in sterilizing the seeds which had taken such firm root as…”

On the recordNovember 10, 1940
I, for one, do not believe that mere force will be successful in sterilizing the seeds which had taken such firm root as a harbinger of better lives for mankind.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Address on Armistice Day, Arlington National Cemetery

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