Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan... We will gain the inevitable triumph so help us God.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security.
Franklin D. RooseveltMore than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
Franklin D. RooseveltI do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt