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Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park was a park designed by the architect Louis Kahn for the south point of Roosevelt Island. The Park celebrates the famous speech and text from the speech is inscribed on a granite wall in the final design of the Park.

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    The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities—a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    There never was a good war or a bad peace.
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    Sabra Cravat: I should think you’d be ashamed of yourself. Mooning around with an Indian hired girl.
    Cim Cravat: Ruby isn’t an Indian hired girl. She’s the daughter of an Osage chief.
    Sabra Cravat: Osage, fiddlesticks.
    Cim Cravat: She’s just as important in the Osage nation as, well, as Alice Roosevelt is in Washington.
    Howard Estabrook (1884–1978)

    The Sage of Toronto ... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a “global village” instantly and effortlessly accessible to all. Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom and repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle’s present vulgarity.
    Guy Debord (b. 1931)

    The park is filled with night and fog,
    The veils are drawn about the world,
    Sara Teasdale (1884–1933)