As long as these four nations with great military power stick together in determination to keep the peace there will be no possibility of an aggressor nation arising to start another world war.
FDR
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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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All our allies have learned by bitter experience that real development will not be possible if they are to be diverted from their purpose by repeated wars--or even threats of war.
If we would reap the full harvest, we must cultivate the soil where this good seed is sprouting and the plant is reaching up to mature growth.
But they do not have that access; lacking it they follow blindly and fervently the lead of those who seek autocratic power.
Government became the representative and the trustee of the public interest.
They seek the restoration of their selfish power.
Rigorously held up to popular examination, their true character presents itself.
We do not distrust the future of essential democracy.
Because such other Governments are perhaps more spectacular, it was high time for democracy to assert itself.
Again I revert to the increase of national purchasing power as an underlying necessity of the day.
And we have learned something else--the old, old lesson that probability of attack is mightily decreased by the assurance of an ever ready defense.
The object is to put capital--private as well as public--to work.
The cost of the blessed right of being able to say what we please.
I can also understand the wishfulness of those who oversimplify the whole situation by repeating that all we have to do is to mind our own business and keep the nation out of war.
But there is a vast difference between keeping out of war and pretending that this war is none of our business.
We must as a united people keep ablaze on this continent the flames of human liberty, of reason, of democracy and of fair play as living things to be preserved for the better world that is to come.
In the long run history amply demonstrates that angry controversy surely wins less than calm discussion.
The American people have unalterably set their faces against that tyranny.
If that defense fails, all the population and all the resources of Europe, Asia, Africa and Australasia will be dominated by the conquerors.
And the justice of morality must and will win in the end.
But the massed, angered forces of common humanity will finish it.
We should never forget the things we are fighting for.
Hitlerism, like any other form of crime or disease, can grow from the evil seeds of economic as well as military feudalism.
And that means not only physical security which provides safety from attacks by aggressors.
All our allies want freedom to develop their lands and resources, to build up industry, to increase education and individual opportunity, and to raise standards of living.
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