For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a very heavy toll in warships, in transports, in planes, and in men. They are feeling the effects of those losses.

They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.

Our security is not a matter of weapons alone. The arm that wields them must be strong, the eye that guides them clear, the will that directs them indomitable.

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt