Statement on New Year's Day
12/31/1943
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A strong America—strong in the social and economic sense as well as in the military sense—is essential for peace.
We can fulfill our responsibilities for maintaining the security of our own country only by exercising our power and our influence to achiev...
In Europe, we shall resume the attack... until Germany is completely defeated.
This war must be waged—it is being waged—with the greatest and most persistent intensity.