Today, in the same kind of community effort, only very much larger, the United Nations and their peoples have kept the levees of civilization high enough to prevent the floods of aggression and barbarism and wholesale murder from engulfing us all.
Roosevelt draws a parallel between local community efforts and the global cooperation of the United Nations in the face of aggression.
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