The 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. RooseveltDealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.
Franklin D. RooseveltFrankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term "unconditional surrender."The German people can have dinned into their ears what I said in my Christmas Eve speech--in effect, that we have no thought of destroying the German people and that we want them to live through the generations like other European peoples on condition, of course, that they get rid of their present philosophy of conquest.
Franklin D. Roosevelt