Yesterday, December 7th, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32nd US President (1882-1945) and the only one elected four times. He led America out of the Great Depression through the New Deal, guided the Allies to victory in WWII, and laid the groundwork for the United Nations.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Other Quotes
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
We must be the great arsenal of democracy.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
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