US Presidency
1941

With greatly augmented strength, the United States and the other American Republics now chart their course in the situation of today. Your Government knows what terms Hitler, if victorious, would impose. They are, indeed, the only terms on which he would accept a so-called negotiated peace. And, under those terms, Germany would literally parcel out the world hoisting the swastika itself over vast territories and populations, and setting up puppet governments of its own choosing, wholly subject to the will and the policy of a conqueror. To the people of the Americas, a triumphant Hitler would say, as he said after the seizure of Austria, and as he said after Munich, and as he said after the seizure of Czechoslovakia: I am now completely satisfied. This is the last territorial readjustment I will seek. And he would of course add: All we want is peace, friendship, and profitable trade relations with you in the New World. Were any of us in the Americas so incredibly simple and forgetful as to accept those honeyed words, what would then happen?