Peace can be made and kept only by the united determination of free and peace-loving peoples who are willing to work together.
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.
The only way to meet our increased needs for more weapons and new weapons is for every American now engaged in war work to stay on his war job.
National war service... will give complete assurance that the need for war equipment will be filled.
We must make sure that private enterprise works as it is supposed to work.
I am clear in my own mind that, as an essential factor in the maintenance of world peace in the future, we must have universal military training after this war.
In Europe, we shall resume the attack... until Germany is completely defeated.
A strong America—strong in the social and economic sense as well as in the military sense—is essential for peace.
We must never make the mistake of assuming that the Germans are beaten until the last Nazi has surrendered.
It is tragic that the gallant women who have volunteered for service as nurses should be so overworked.
International peace and well-being can be secured only through institutions capable of life and growth.
I do not wish to give the impression that all mistakes can be avoided.
It is appropriate at this time to review the basic strategy which has guided us through three years of war.
Nineteen forty-five can see the final ending of the Nazi-Fascist reign of terror in Europe.
We must now build on the foundations that have already been laid, and supplement the measures now in operation, in order to guarantee the production that may be necessary in the critical period that lies ahead.
We pray that we may be worthy of the unlimited opportunities that God has given us.
This war must be waged—it is being waged—with the greatest and most persistent intensity.