“Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

1940s, Response to the attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)

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32nd President of the United States 1882–1945

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