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Quotation from Second Inaugural Address by Franklin D. Roosevelt
“WHEN four years ago we met to inaugurate a President, the Republic, single-minded in anxiety, stood in spirit here”
Second Inaugural Address, Opening sentence (Project Gutenberg #4938)
The full opening sentence, measuring the second inauguration against the anxious first.
Citation: "WHEN four years ago we met to inaugurate a President, the Republic, single-minded in anxiety, stood in spirit here" — Franklin D. Roosevelt, Second Inaugural Address, Opening sentence (Project Gutenberg #4938). (id fdr-second-inaugural-address-q3)
