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[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Age: 63 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 30
Died: 1945
Died: April 12
32Nd U.S. President
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