Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

These men could not have been armed, and they could not be equipped as they are, had it not been for the miracle of our production here back...

I said this: 'We cannot wage this war in a defensive spirit.'

The most important fact in our national life today is the essential fact of eleven million young Americans in our armed forces.

I can speak as one who knows something of the feelings of a parent with sons who are in the battle line overseas.