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FDR: “I am not for a return to that definition of liberty under which for many years a free people were being gradually…”

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I am not for a return to that definition of liberty under which for many years a free people were being gradually regimented into the service of the privileged few.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

He rejects a narrow definition of liberty that serves only the privileged few.

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