It was hard for some people to realize at the close of World War II that we could never again retire behind the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans and rely on friends abroad to protect democracy and freedom.
St. Patrick's Day Address in New York City
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It would have involved us in all-out war in the Far East, and we have been strenuously trying to avoid that all the time.
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