“We know that we may have to pay a heavy price for freedom. We will pay this price with a will. Whatever the price, it is a thousand times worth it. No matter what our enemies, in their desperation, may attempt to do to us—we will say, [..] ‘We can take it.’ And what’s more we can give it back and we will give it back—with compound interest.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union, Jan 6. 1941

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“When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt, September 11, 1941 radio address.

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"[A nation] must believe in the past. It must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt, June 30, 1941, Hyde Park

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"never in the history of the world has a nation lost its democracy by a successful struggle to defend its democracy. We must not be defeated by the fear of the very danger which we are preparing to resist. Our freedom has shown its ability to survive war, but our freedom would never survive surrender. The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 27, 1941

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“Never in all our history—have Americans faced a job so well worthwhile. May it be said of us in the days to come that our children and our children’s children ‘will rise up and call us blessed.’ ”

Franklin Roosevelt, Washington D.C., March 15, 1941,

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“We must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us, this is an emergency as serious as war itself. We must apply ourselves to our task with the same resolution, the same sense of urgency, the same spirit of patriotism and sacrifice as we would show were we at war.”
Franklin Roosevelt, December 29, 1940

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“The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mountains, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic—have always blown on free men. We are free today. If we join together now—men and women and children—to face the common menace as a united people, we shall be free tomorrow.”

Franklin Roosevelt, August 1940

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“If we are to meet the dangers that threaten us, we too must be ready to fight our own fight and stand together as one man. In hours of peril the frontiersmen, whatever their personal likes or dislikes, whatever their personal differences of opinion, gathered together in absolute unity for defense. We, in this hour, must have and will have absolute national unity for total defense.”

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"We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering. "

Churchill, Address to the House of Commons, May 13, 1940

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President Roosevelt with his wife Eleanor, his mother Sara, and Mrs. Endicott Peabody at St. James’s Episcopal Church on March 4, 1940, the seventh anniversary of his first inauguration.”

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1. “Franklin Roosevelt ended his address with a heartfelt plea for unity of purpose, and an indirect reference to what he considered “the soul of America,” that traces back to the founding of the country and the Golden Rule of Christianity—do unto others as you would have them do unto you...

[Address to the Joint Session of Congress, September 20, 1939]

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“Outside the storms of war may blow and the lands may be lashed with the fury of its gales, but in our own hearts this Sunday morning there is peace. [..] Our consciences are at rest… We are fighting to save the whole world from the pestilence of Nazi tyranny and in defense of all that is most sacred to man."

Winston Churchill, Sept 3, 1939 England declares war on Germany

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