| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 47007 |
| QUOTATION: | I ... believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. Letter, April 14, 1933, to Arthur Murray, President’s Personal File, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, New York. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs, vol. I, p. 54, The Belknap Press of Harvard University (1969).
on government policies vs. Public opinion. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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