in honor of this year's 4th of july (i know i'm tardy)
FDR's "rendezvous with destiny" speech, june 27, 1936
an excerpt
'but i cannot, with candor, tell you that all is well with the world. clouds of suspicion, tides of ill-will and intolerance gather darkly in many places. in our own land we enjoy indeed a fullness of life greater than that of most nations. but the rush of modern civilizations itself has raised for us new difficulties, new problems which must be solved if we are to preserve to the United States the political and economic freedom for which Washington and Jefferson planned and fought...
there is a mysterious cycle in human events. to some generations much is given. of other generations much is expected. this generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny'
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