I ... believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
ATTRIBUTION:
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. Letter, April 14, 1933, to Arthur Murray, President’s Personal File, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, New York. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs, vol. I, p. 54, The Belknap Press of Harvard University (1969).
