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Franklin D. Roosevelt - Several centuries ago the...

Several centuries ago the greatest writer in history described the two most menacing clouds that hang over human government and human society as "malice domestic and fierce foreign war." (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

Several centuries ago the greatest writer in history described the two most menacing clouds that hang over human government and human society as "malice domestic and fierce foreign war."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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