The Soviet Union, as everybody who has the courage to face the fact knows, is run by a dictatorship as absolute as any other dictatorship in the world.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Soviet Union

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

Occupation

American President National leader Politician

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United States

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Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Address to the Delegates of the American Youth Congress. 10 Feb. 1940, Washington, DC, USA.

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

C.S. Lewis

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Courage Virtues

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C.S. Lewis
Source
The Screwtape Letters
Medium
Novel
Genre
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Language
English
Time
1942 1940s 20th century
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Citation

Lewis, C.S. The Screwtape Letters. Geoffrey Bles, 1942, ch. 29.

Another quote from 1940

Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday, you will be a real boy.

Pinocchio

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The Blue Fairy
Actor
Evelyn Venable
Source
Pinocchio
Medium
Film
Genre
Animation (film) Musical (film) Animation Musical
Language
English
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
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Citation

Pinocchio. Directed by Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, Walt Disney Productions, 1940.

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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Abraham Lincoln

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Might makes right Justice American Civil War
Speaker
Abraham Lincoln
Source
Address at Cooper Institute, New York City
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1860 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Cooper Institute, New York City." 27 Feb. 1860, New York City, NY, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Cooper Institute, New York City, February 27, 1860." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.