If we fail, the cause of free self-government throughout the world will rock to its foundations; and therefore our responsibility is heavy, to ourselves, to the world as it is to-day, and to the generations yet unborn.
Roosevelt warns that failure in the American democratic experiment could jeopardize self-government worldwide.
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