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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 56
AUTHOR: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945)
QUOTATION: We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
ATTRIBUTION: President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, fireside chat on national defense, May 26, 1940.—The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940, p. 240 (1941).

This sentence is one of many quotations inscribed on Cox Corridor II, a first floor House corridor, U.S. Capitol.
SUBJECTS: America