US Presidency
1945

The Congressional delegates to the San Francisco Conference will consist of an equal number of Republican and Democratic members. The American Delegation is, in every sense of the word, bipartisan. World peace is not a party question. I think that Republicans want peace just as much as Democrats. It is not a party question, any more than is military victory, the winning of the war. When the Republic was threatened, first by the Nazi clutch for world conquest back in 1940 and then by the Japanese treachery in 1941, partisanship and politics were laid aside by nearly every American; and every resource was dedicated to our common safety. The same consecration to the cause of peace will be expected, I think, by every patriotic American, and by every human soul overseas. The structure of world peace can not be the work of one man, or one party, or one Nation. It can not be just an American peace, or a British peace, or a Russian, a French, or a Chinese peace.