Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

The importance of what we are doing this year, in our own generation, to keep alive the spirit of American democracy, the spirit of opportunity, we cannot over-estimate.

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Remarks to the Daughters of the American Revolution. Washington, D.C.

04/20/1938

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