FDR: “We don't like it--we didn't want to get in it--but we are in it and we're going to fight it with everything we've got.”

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.

We shall be equipped to deal with the great overriding question of security, and with the crucial questions of money and exchange...

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

Possession of any mine or mines taken under this order shall be terminated by the Secretary of the Interior as soon as he determines that such possession is no longer required for the successful prosecution of the war.