"It takes a long time to bring..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
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“I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.”
“That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.”
“The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.”
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“I don't believe in yesterday.”
“The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field.”
“Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience.”