If the avoidance of these costs means taxes on my income; if avoiding these costs means taxes on my estate at death, I would bear those taxes willingly as the price of my breathing and my children breathing the free air of a free country, as the price of a living and not a dead world.
Roosevelt expresses his willingness to pay taxes to preserve freedom and ensure a better future for his children.
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