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| “This hope is that peace may be assured through practical measures of disarmament and that all of us may carry to victory our common struggle against economic chaos.” |
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Message to the Nations of the World”,
May 16, 1933
Audience: Nations around the World |
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| “To these ends the Nations have called two great World Conferences. The happiness, the prosperity, and the very lives of the men, and women and children who inhabit the whole world are bound up in the decisions which their Governments will make in the near future. The improvement of social conditions the preservation of the individual human rights, and the furtherance of social justice are dependent upon these decisions.” |
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Message to the Nations of the World”,
May 16, 1933
Audience: Nations around the World |
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| “If all Nations will agree wholly to eliminate from the possession and use the weapons which make possible a successful attack, defenses automatically will become impregnable, and the frontiers and independence of every Nation will become secure.” |
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Message to the Nations of the World”,
May 16, 1933
Audience: Nations around the World |
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| “Common sense points out that if any strong Nation refuses to join with genuine sincerity in these concerted efforts for political and economic peace, the one at Geneva and the other at London, progress can be obstructed and ultimately blocked.” |
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Message to the Nations of the World”,
May 16, 1933
Audience: Nations around the World |
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| “This declaration represents my purpose; but it represents more than a purpose, for it stands for a practice. To a measurable degree it has succeeded; the whole world now knows that the United States cherishes no predatory ambitions. We are strong; but less powerful Nations know that they need not fear our strength. We seek no conquests; we stand for peace.” |
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt,Address at Chautauqua
April 14, 1936,
Audience: The American People |
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| “Peace, like charity, begins at home; that is why we have begun at home. But peace in the Western world is not all that we seek. It is our hope that knowledge of the practical application of the good-neighbor policy in this hemisphere will be borne home to our neighbors across the sea. For ourselves we are on good terms with them-terms in most cases of straightforward friendship, of peaceful understanding.” |
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt,Address at Chautauqua
April 14, 1936,
Audience: The American People |
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| “In spite of all this we have sought steadfastly to assist international movements to prevent war. We cooperated to the bitter end and it was a bitter end in the work of the General Disarmament Conference.” |
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt,Address at Chautauqua
April 14, 1936,
Audience: The American People |
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| “To resist the clamor of that greed, if war should come, would require the unswerving support of all Americans who love peace. If we face the choice of profits or peace, the Nation will answer- must answer- ‘We choose peace’. It is the duty of all of us to encourage such a body of public opinion in this country that the answers will be clear and for all practical purposes unanimous.” |
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt,Address at Chautauqua
April 14, 1936,
Audience: The American People |
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