Is this the end of a story that has been told? Is the book of democracy now to be closed and placed away upon the dusty shelves of time? My answer is this: All we have known of the glories of democracy--its freedom, its efficiency as a mode of living, its ability to meet the aspirations of the common man--all these are merely an introduction to the greater story of a more glorious future. We Americans of today--all of us--we are characters in this living book of democracy. But we are also its author. It falls upon us now to say whether the chapters that are to come will tell a story of retreat or a story of continued advance. I believe that the American people will say: "Forward!"
--Franklin D. Roosevelt (November 2, 1940; final campaign speech, Cleveland)
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