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By Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
- Source
- Letter to all State Governors on a Uniform Soil Conservation Law, February 26, 1937
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- The American Presidency Project (text follows the Public Papers of the Presidents)
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From a letter Franklin D. Roosevelt sent to all state governors on February 26, 1937, urging them to pass soil conservation laws after the dust storms.