President Franklin D Roosevelt, Speech to the Democratic National Convention, accepting the nomination for a fourth term (Chicago, July 20, 1944)
It is good that we are all getting that broader vision. For we shall need it after the war. The isolationists and the ostriches who plagued our thinking before Pearl Harbor are becoming slowly extinct. The American people now know that all Nations of the world- large and small- will have to play their appropriate part in keeping the peace by force, and in deciding peacefully the disputes which might lead to war.
We all know how truly the world has become one- that if Germany and Japan, for example, were to come through this war with their philosophies established and their armies intact, our own grandchildren would again have to be fighting in their day for their liberties and their lives.
Source and Complete Text: Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Address to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.,” July 20, 1944. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project.
Franklin D. Roosevelt made this address in Chicago after accepting the nomination for a unprecedented fourth term in office, which he won in November 1944.
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