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Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.

Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Peace, War, Years

If civilization is to survive, the principles of the Prince of Peace must be restored. Shattered trust between nations must be revived. Most important of all, the will for peace on the part of peace-loving nations must express itself to the end that nations that may be tempted to violate their agreements and the rights of others will desist from such a cause. There must be positive endeavors to preserve peace. America hates war. America hopes for peace. Therefore, America actively engages in the search for peace.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Peace, Hate, War
"Quarantine the Aggressor". Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech on the world situation in Chicago, Illinois, October 5, 1937.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Military, War, Inspirational Life

When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Country, War, Party
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1942, Volume 11”, p.80, Best Books on

They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Military, War, Son
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1942, Volume 11”, p.355, Best Books on

I fearthat both dictators [Hitler and Mussolini] think their present methods are succeeding because of the gains they have made in Albania, Hungary and Yugoslavia.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Thinking, Yugoslavia

I've fired my last shot. I think I should have another round in my belt.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Thinking, Should Have

I have seen war ... I hate war.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hate, War, I Hate
Speech, Chautauqua, N.Y., 14 Aug. 1936

A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Selfish, War, Ill Will
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.9, Best Books on

I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Believe, People

To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Winning, Compromise

[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Population, Ends

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Victory And Defeat, Should Have

Our policy is to give all possible material aid to the nations that still resist aggression across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. And we make it abundantly clear that we intend to commit none of the fatal errors of appeasement. We have the thought that in this nation of many states we have found the way in which men of many racial origins may live together in peace. If the human race as a whole is to survive, the world must find a way by which men and nations may live together in peace. We cannot accept the doctrine that war must be forever a part of man's destiny.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Ocean, Destiny

We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Men, Skills
'Fireside Chat' radio broadcast, 29 December 1940, in 'Public Papers' (1941) vol. 9, p. 643

Our security is not a matter of weapons alone. The arm that wields them must be strong, the eye that guides them clear, the will that directs them indomitable.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Strong, War, Eye
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) (1943). “Development of United States Foreign Policy: Addresses and Messages of Franklin D. Roosevelt Compiled from Official Sources, Intended to Present the Chronological Development of the Foreign Policy of the United States from the Announcement of the Good Neighbor Policy in 1933, Including the War Declarations”

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Hands, World
Address at University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., 10 June 1940

On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Crush, War, Army

How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Thinking, People

What worries me, especially, is that public opinion over here is patting itself on the back every morning and thanking God for theAtlantic Ocean (and the Pacific Ocean). We greatly underestimate the serious implications to our own future.... Things move with such terrific speed these days, that it is really essential to us to think in broader terms and, in effect, to warn the American people that they, too, should think of possible ultimate results in Europe and the Far East.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Morning, War, Moving

Slowly, and in spite of anything we Americans do or do not do, it looks a little as if you and some other good people are going to have to answer the old question of whether you want to keep your country unshackled by taking even more definite steps to do so

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Country, War, People

As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Pride, World
The Four Freedoms, delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)

And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mother, Father, War
Speech, Boston, Mass., 30 Oct. 1940 See Lyndon Johnson 9

The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward an idea of extension of boundaries.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Ideas, Spirit

On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Hands, Order