An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has …

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod. ✨ Fireside Chat in the night before signing the Fair Labor Standards, June 24, 1938.
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An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod. ✨ Fireside Chat in the night before signing the Fair Labor Standards, June 24, 1938.

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