A statesman deals with concrete difficulties - with things which must be done from day to day. Not often can he frame conscious patterns for the far off future. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

A statesman deals with concrete difficulties - with things which must be done from day to day. Not often can he frame conscious patterns for the far off future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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