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| The frontier of America is on the Rhine. |
| ~ Attributed to President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, by a member or members of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs, meeting in executive session at the White House, January 31, 1939.—Whitney H. Shepardson and William O. Scroggs, The United States in World Affairs, p. 104 (1940). Reports of this remark caused an outcry by American isolationists and in the German press, while they gave courage to the British and French. Roosevelt vehemently denied the remark, calling it a “deliberate lie” at his press conference on February 3.—The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1939, p. 113 (1941). Representative John A. Martin referred to this in remarks in the House during a discussion of building military airplanes: “A controversy has been raging over an alleged private remark of the President that the frontier of America is on the Rhine. Whether he said it or not, the frontier of America has been on the Rhine, and beyond. An American Army has trod the soil of Germany. The American frontier has been on the coasts of Europe, of Africa, and of Asia, when those coasts were vastly more distant from ours than they are today.”—Congressional Record, February 14, 1939, vol. 84, p. 1394. ~ |
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| See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 337. ~ |
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| A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. |
| ~ Francis Bacon, Of Atheism. ~ |
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| Juxtaposition marries men. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Pierre (1852), bk. III, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 7, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). Spoken by Pierre’s mother, Mary Glendinning. ~ |
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| These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. Letter, May 3, 1940, to Joseph P. Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain. The Roosevelt Letters, vol. 3, p. 312, ed. Elliott Roosevelt, George G. Harrup & Co., Ltd. (1952). Kennedy was worried that Britain might not survive given the combined forces the Allies faced in the Axis powers. Roosevelt agreed that there were dark days ahead, but was convinced that in the end there would be better days ahead. ~ |
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| Now obey thy cherished secret wish, Embrace thy friends-leave all in order; To port and hawser's tie no more returning, Depart upon thy endless cruise, old Sailor! |
| ~ Walt Whitman, Now Finalè to the Shore. (To Tennyson). ~ |
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| Second thoughts, they say, are best. |
| ~ John Dryden, The Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. 2. ~ |
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