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FDR: But wholly apart from the greater international morality which we seek today, we recognize the practical fact that with…

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But wholly apart from the greater international morality which we seek today, we recognize the practical fact that with modern weapons and modern conditions, modern man can no longer lead a civilized life if we are to go back to the practice of wars and conquests of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Roosevelt argues that modern conditions require a departure from past practices of war and conquest.

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