FDR

For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a very heavy toll in warships, in transports, in planes, and in men.

We remember that the Chinese people were the first to stand up and fight against the aggressors in this war; and in the future a still unconquerable China will play its proper role in maintaining peace and prosperity, not only in Eastern…

The Japanese may cut the Burma Road; but I want to say to the gallant people of China that no matter what advances the Japanese may make, ways will be found to deliver airplanes and munitions of war to the armies of Generalissimo Chiang…

But this whole nation pays tribute to the Filipino and American officers and men who held out so long on Bataan Peninsula, to those grim and gallant fighters who still hold Corregidor, where the flag flies, and to the forces that are still…

In the German and Italian peoples themselves there is a growing conviction that the cause of Nazism and Fascism is hopeless--that their political and military leaders have led them along the bitter road which leads not to world conquest…

However, we are now greatly concerned lest those who have recently come to power may seek to force the brave French people into submission to Nazi despotism.

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered, yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the sacrifice, the more glorious the triumph.

The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

Never before have we been called upon for such a prodigious effort.

The task that we Americans now face will test us to the uttermost.

The great Chinese people have suffered grievous losses; Chungking has been almost wiped out of existence--yet it remains the capital of an unbeatable China.

The Atlantic Charter applies not only to the parts of the world that border the Atlantic but to the whole world; disarmament of aggressors, self-determination of nations and peoples, and the four freedoms--freedom of speech, freedom of…

That means a national unity that can know no limitations of race or creed or selfish politics.

We Americans will contribute unified production and unified acceptance of sacrifice and of effort.

In the partnership of our common enterprise, we must share in a unified plan in which all of us must play our several parts, each of us being equally indispensable and dependent one on the other.

The United Nations constitute an association of independent peoples of equal dignity and equal importance.

In time of crisis when the future is in the balance, we come to understand, with full recognition and devotion, what this nation is and what we owe to it.

We will do it cheerfully, remembering that the common enemy seeks to destroy every home and every freedom in every part of our land.

We shall give up conveniences and modify the routine of our lives if our country asks us to do so.

We shall not demand special gains or special privileges or special advantages for any one group or occupation.

And we can lose this war only if use slow up our effort or if we waste our ammunition sniping at each other.

We know now that if we lose this war it will be generations or even centuries before our conception of democracy can live again.

We are coming to realize that one extra plane or extra tank or extra gun or extra ship completed tomorrow may, in a few months, turn the tide on some distant battlefield; it may make the difference between life and death for some of our…

With few exceptions, labor, capital and farming realize that this is no time either to make undue profits or to gain special advantages, one over the other.