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President Roosevelt’s Acceptance Speech for Renomination for the Presidency, 1936

September 11, 2012 By Professor Arielle Saiber

president-roosevelt-1936“. . .Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales.” [. . .]    –Roosevelt, 1936

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