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FDR: It would seem, therefore, that world peace through international agreements is most safe in the hands of democratic…

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It would seem, therefore, that world peace through international agreements is most safe in the hands of democratic representative governments--or, in other words, peace is most greatly jeopardized in and by those nations where democracy has been discarded or has never developed.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Roosevelt argues that world peace is safest in the hands of democratic governments.

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