On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended bound…

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined perhaps to minimize its vast importance, not only to our own continuing relations but also to the example which it sets to the other nations of the world. ✨ Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5, p.277, Best Books on
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