FDR: “to commit ourselves definitively at this time to a formalized course of action might well be premature and might…”

It may be in another week or ten days.

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.

All sections of our population—labor, farmers, businessmen have shared and will share in the benefits which increased trade brings.

The coming total defeat of our enemies, and of the philosophy of conflict and aggression... gives us a new chance and a better chance than we have ever had to bring about conditions under which the Nations of the world substitute…