US Presidency
1940

And in these contests the Americas would offer the only real resistance to the Axis powers. With all their vaunted efficiency, with all their ( and ) parade of pious purpose in this war, there are still in their background the concentration camp and the servants of God in chains. The history of recent years proves that the shootings and the chains and the concentration camps are not simply the transient tools but the very altars of modern dictatorships. They may talk of a new order in the world, but what they have in mind is only ( but ) a revival of the oldest and the worst tyranny. In that there is no liberty, no religion, no hope. The proposed new order is the very opposite of a United States of Europe or a United States of Asia. It is not a government based upon the consent of the governed. It is not a union of ordinary, self respecting men and women to protect themselves and their freedom and their dignity from oppression.