"But the challenge is always the same — whether each generation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devotion to attain and retain that greatest good for the greatest number which this government of the people was created to ensure."
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, in The Presidency and Rhetorical Leadership, p. 168
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