US Presidency
1945

It can not be a peace of large Nations or of small Nations. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world. It can not be a structure of complete perfection at first. But it can be a peace, and it will be a peace, based on the sound and just principles of the Atlantic Charter, on the concept of the dignity of the human being, and on the guarantees of tolerance and freedom of religious worship. As the Allied armies have marched to military victory, they have liberated people whose liberties had been crushed by the Nazis for four long years, whose economy has been reduced to ruin by Nazi despoilers. There have been instances of political confusion and unrest in these liberated areas, that is not unexpected, as in Greece or in Poland or in Yugoslavia, and there may be more.