US Presidency
1941

Our national policy is this: First, by an impressive expression of the public will and without regard to partisanship, we are committed to all inclusive national defense. Second, by an impressive expression of the public will and without regard to partisanship, we are committed to full support of all those resolute peoples, everywhere, who are resisting aggression and are thereby keeping war away from our hemisphere. By this support, we express our determination that the democratic cause shall prevail; and we strengthen the defense and the security of our own nation. Third, by an impressive expression of the public will and without regard to partisanship, we are committed to the proposition that principles of morality and considerations for our own security will never permit us to acquiesce in a peace dictated by aggressors and sponsored by appeasers. We know that enduring peace can not be bought at the cost of other people's freedom. In the recent national election there was no substantial difference between the two great parties in respect to that national policy.