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Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd President of the United States
1930s / First Inaugural Address (1933)

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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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