Evening star., 1941-03-16
Text of Roosevelt Address
President Asks Sacrifices and Encourages
Conquered Peoples to Strike Back
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and women who recognize the
truth, and face reality with intel
Igence and courage.
Today, at last, ours is not a
partial effort. 1t is a total effort
and that is the only way to guar
antee ultimate safety.
Beginning year ago, we start
ed the erection of hundreds of
plants and we started the train
ing of millions of men.
Then, at the moment the aid
to-democracies bill was passed
we were ready to recommend
the $7,000,OOO,000 appropriation
on the basis of capacity produc-
tion as now planned.
The articles themselves cover
the whole range of munitions of
war and the facilities for trans
porting them.
Congress Making Patriotic
Speed on I Billions Aid.
The aid-to- -democracieS bill
was agreed to by both houses of
the Congress last Tuesday after
noon. I signed it one-half hour
later. Five minutes later I ap-
proved a list of articles for i'm
mediate shipment. Many OF
them are on their way. On
Wednesday l recommended an
appropriation for new material
to the extent of $7000000 900,
and the Congress is making pa
triotic speed in making the ap-
preparation available.
Here in Washington we are
thinking in terms of speed, and
speed now. And I hope that that
WatchWord will find its way into
every home in the Nation.
We shall have to make sacri-
fices-every one of us. The final
extent of those sacrifices will de-
pend upon the speed with which
we act now!
must tell you tonight in plain
language what this undertaking
means to you-to your daily life.
Whether you are in the armed
services, whether you are steel
worker or a stevedore, a machin-
ist or a housewife, farmer or
a banker, a storekeeper or a
manufacturer-to all of you it
will mean sacrifice in behalf of
country and your liberties. You
will feel the impact of this
gigantic effort in your daily lives.
You will feel it in a way which
will cause many inconvenience.
You will have to be content
with lower profits from business,
because obviously your taxes will
be higher.
You will have to work longer
at your bench or your plow or
your machine.
Let me make it clear that the
Nation is calling for the sacrifice
of some privileges, but not for
the sacrifice of fundamental
rights. Most of us will do that
willingly. That kind of sacrifice
Is for the common national pro-
lection and welfare, for our de-
fense against the most ruthless
brutality in history, for the ultl-
mate victory of way of life now
so violently menaced.
A hearted effort on our
part will lead to failure. This is
no part-time job. The concepts
of business as usual and nor
malcy" must be forgotten until
the task is finished. This is an
all-out effort-nothing short OF
all-out effort will win.
Dedicated to Increasing
Tempo of Production.
We are now dedicated, from
here on, to constantly increas-
ing tempo of production-a pro-
duction greater than we now
know or have ever known before
"a production that does not stop
and should not pause.
And so, tonight, am appealing
to the heart and to the mind of
every man and every woman
within our borders who love
liberty. I ask you to consider the
needs of our Nation at this hour,
and to put aside all personal diff
ferences until our victory is won.
The light of democracy must be
kept burning. To the perpetual
ton of this light, each must do
his own share. The single effort
of one individual may seem very
small. But there are 130,000000
individuals over here. There are
many more millions in Britain
and elsewhere braVely shielding
the great flame of democracy
from the blackout of barbarism.
1t is not enough for us merely to
trim the wick, or polish the glass.
The time has come when we must
provide the fuel in every-increas-
ing amounts to keep the flame
alight.
There will be no divisions OF
party or section or race or ma
tionality or religion. There is
not one among us who does not
have stake in the outcome of
the effort in which we are now
engaged.
A few weeks ago I spoke of four
freedoms--freedom of speech and
expression, freedom of every per-
son to worship God in his own
way, freedom from want, free
dom from fear. They are the
ultimate stake. They may not be
Immediately attainable through
out the world, but humanity does
move toward those ideals through
democratic processes. If we fail
if democracy is superseded by
slavery-then those four freedoms
or even the mention of them will
become forbidden things. Gen.
turies will pass before they can
be revived.
BY winning now, we strengthen
their meaning, we increase the
stature of mankind and the dig
nifty of human life.
There is vast difference be-
tween the word loyalty" and the
word obedience" Obedience can
be obtained and enforced in
dictatorship by the use of threat
and extortion or it can be OBJ
tanned by a failure on the part
of government to tell the truth to