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FDR: It has been our steady policy--and it is certainly a common sense policy--that the right of each nation to freedom must…

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It has been our steady policy--and it is certainly a common sense policy--that the right of each nation to freedom must be measured by the willingness of that nation to fight for freedom.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Roosevelt articulates that a nation's freedom is contingent upon its willingness to defend it.

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