This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Source: Acceptance speech, Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, 27 June 1936
Written: 1936

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Roosevelt delivered the speech at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, accepting the Democratic nomination for a second term. He used the line to ask his generation to defend democracy and economic security against what he called “economic royalists”.

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