Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

Our early forbears brought from the Netherlands a quality of endurance against great odds—a quality of quiet determination to conquer obstacles of nature and obstacles of man.

Context

Greeting by Telephone to the Holland Society of New York

01/16/1935

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