Franklin Roosevelt said...

The world asks of us who at this moment are heads of nations the supreme capacity to achieve the destinies of nations without forcing upon them, as a price, the mutilation and death of millions of citizens.

Context

Letter to Adolf Hitler Seeking Peace

09/26/1938

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