“. . .Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales.” [. . .] —President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1936)
Contributed by Patrick Molloy
Sighting Citation:
“President Roosevelt’s Acceptance Speech for Renomination for the Presidency, (1936).” Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Elizabeth Coggeshall and Arielle Saiber, eds. September 11, 2012. https://www.dantetoday.org/sightings/president-roosevelts-acceptance-speech-for-renomination-for-the-presidency-1936/.