Fundamentally, if in the future, America cannot trust the Congress it elects to refrain from abuse of our Constitutional usages, democracy will have failed far beyond the importance to it of any king of precedent concerning the judiciary.
Roosevelt warns that if Americans cannot trust Congress, democracy itself is at risk.
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I do know it will come, and I do know that tonight there are over seven and a half million Americans overseas or fighting afloat in this great war.
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