Obama’s Strange FDR Quotation

Published September 11, 2013 2:32am ET



Near the end of his speech to the nation on Syria, President Obama quoted Franklin Roosevelt: “Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideas and principles that we have cherished are challenged.”

Which of FDR’s stirring wartime speeches does this quotation come from?

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