Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

It would be supreme irony for us to win a victory, and then to inherit world chaos simply because we were unprepared to meet what we know we shall have to meet.

Context

Address on the Signing of the Agreement Establishing the U.N.R.R.A.

11/08/1943

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