My Fellow Americans, it is nearly five months since we were attacked at Pearl Harbor. For the two years prior to that attack this country had been gearing itself up to a high level of production of munitions. And yet our war efforts had done little to dislocate the normal lives of most of us. [...]
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: “A Call for Sacrifice”, 28 April, 1942
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: On Land Lease (March 15, 1941)
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: On Land Lease (March 15, 1941) This dinner of the White House Correspondents’ Association is unique. It is the first one at which I have made a speech in all these eight years. It differs from the press conferences that you and I hold twice a week, for you cannot ask me [...]
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Fireside Chat 25: On the Fall of Mussolini (July 28, 1943)
Posted in Franklin Roosevelt Speeches, tagged History, Italy, Mussolini, Politics, speech, USA, Writing, WW II on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My Fellow Americans: Over a year and a half ago I said this to the Congress: “The militarists in Berlin, and Rome and Tokyo started this war, but the massed angered forces of common humanity will finish it.” Today that prophecy is in the process of being fulfilled. The massed, angered forces of common humanity [...]
