Today we seek a moral basis for peace.... It cannot be a lasting peace if the fruit of it is oppression, or starvation, cruelty, or human life dominated by armed camps. It cannot be a sound peace if small nations must live in fear of powerful neighbors. It cannot be a moral peace if freedom from invasion is sold for tribute.
ATTRIBUTION:
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy: Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Unedited Speeches and Messages, Harper (1942). Edward M. Bennett, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Search for Victory: American-Soviet Relations, 1939-1945, pp. 5-6, Scholarly Resources, Inc. (1990).
FDR attempted to convince Americans that the war in Europe affected U.S. security.
