“ Innocent peoples, innocent nations are being cruelly sacrificed to a greed for power and supremacy which is devoid of all sense of justice and humane considerations. ”
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Quarantine Speech (5 October 1937 ). copy citation
| Author | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| Source | Quarantine Speech |
| Topic | greed justice |
| Date | 5 October 1937 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://sites.temple.edu/immerman/franklin-d-roosevelts-quarantine-speec... |
Context
“In times of so-called peace,ships are being attacked and sunk by submarines without cause or notice. Nations are fomenting and taking sides in civil warfare in nations that have never done them any harm. Nations claiming freedom for themselves deny it to others.
Innocent peoples, innocent nations are being cruelly sacrificed to a greed for power and supremacy which is devoid of all sense of justice and humane considerations.
To paraphrase a recent author, “perhaps we foresee a time when men, exultant in the technique of homicide, will rage 80 hotly over the world that every precious thing will be in danger, every book, every picture, every harmony, every treasure garnered through two millenniums, the small, the delicate, the defenseless –”
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