FDR: “I deem action at this time to be of the highest importance.”

I do know it will come, and I do know that tonight there are over seven and a half million Americans overseas or fighting afloat in this great war.

The coming victory of the United Nations means that they, and not their enemies, have power to establish the foundations of the future.

As their Commander in Chief I call upon you, my fellow Americans, to oversubscribe the 1945 Red Cross War Fund.

It seems obvious that we will be more or less responsible for security in all the Pacific waters.