I am sure that they will cheerfully help to pay a large part of its financial cost while it goes on.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1933, until his death on April 12, 1945. A member of the Democratic Party, he was born in New York and is best known for his leadership during two of the most significant crises in American history: the Great Depression and World War II. Roosevelt implemented the New Deal, a series of programs and reforms aimed at economic recovery and social welfare, which fundamentally reshaped the role of the federal government in American life.
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And I am sure that the people in every part of the nation are prepared in their individual living to win this war.
It is not a sacrifice to do without many things to which we are accustomed if the national defense calls for doing without.
It is not a sacrifice for the industrialist or the wage earner, the farmer or the shopkeeper, the trainman or the doctor, to pay more taxes, to buy more bonds, to forego extra profits, to work longer or harder at the task for which he is…
It is not a sacrifice for any man, old or young, to be in the Army or the Navy of the United States.
The United States does not consider it a sacrifice to do all one can, to give one's best to our nation, when the nation is fighting for its existence and its future life.
On the road ahead there lies hard work--grueling work--day and night, every hour and every minute.
I think the country knows that the people who are actually responsible in each and every one of these many fields are pulling together with a teamwork that has never before been excelled.
It will not only be a long war, it will be a hard war.
The attack at Pearl Harbor can be repeated at any one of many points, points in both oceans and along both our coast lines and against all the rest of the Hemisphere.
We must be set to face a long war against crafty and powerful bandits.
A steady stream of tanks and planes, of guns and ships and shells and equipment--that is what these eighteen months have given us.
It has given us time, invaluable time, to build our American assembly lines of production.
Our policy rested on the fundamental truth that the defense of any country resisting Hitler or Japan was in the long run the defense of our own country.
The lives of our soldiers and sailors--the whole future of this nation--depend upon the manner in which each and every one of us fulfills his obligation to our country.
But in the absence of all the facts, as revealed by official sources, you have no right in the ethics of patriotism to deal out unconfirmed reports in such a way as to make people believe that they are gospel truth.
If you feel that your government is not disclosing enough of the truth, you have every right to say so.
Of necessity there will be delays in officially confirming or denying reports of operations, but we will not hide facts from the country if we know the facts and if the enemy will not be aided by their disclosure.
Our government will not be caught in this obvious trap--and neither will the people of the United States.
The purposes of such fantastic claims are, of course, to spread fear and confusion among us, and to goad us into revealing military information which our enemies are desperately anxious to obtain.
This is an old trick of propaganda which has been used innumerable times by the Nazis.
Many rumors and reports which we now hear originate with enemy sources.
I deeply feel the anxiety of all of the families of the men in our armed forces and the relatives of people in cities which have been bombed.
We must share together the bad news and the good news, the defeats and the victories--the changing fortunes of war.
Every single man, woman and child is a partner in the most tremendous undertaking of our American history.
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