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He told his Cabinet he was not "willing to fire the first shot."

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"Continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber," President Roosevelt said in 1935, at the height of the Great Depression. "To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit."

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