“ Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment. ”
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward (1933). copy citation
| Author | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| Source | Looking Forward |
| Topic | reality moment |
| Date | 1933 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/rooseveltfd-lookingforward/rooseveltfd-looki... |
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“farmers find no markets for their produce, and the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.
More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.
And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for.”
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