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FDR – ‘We will gain the inevitable triumph – so help us God.’
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Campaigning for his third term, Franklin D. Roosevelt promised to keep America out of war,stating at Boston, Massachusetts, October 30, 1940:
“I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.”
“I said… keep this nation from being drawn into the war… We will not send our men to take part in European wars.” FDR told the Young Democratic Clubs of America, April 20, 1940: “We are keeping out of the wars that are going on in Europe and in Asia… Our opponents are seeking to frighten the country by telling people that the present Administration is deliberately… drifting into war. You know better than that.”
“The United States of America, as I have said before, is neutral and does not intend to get involved in war.” FDR stated in a Fireside Chat, September 3, 1939: “We seek to keep war from our own firesides by keeping war from coming to the Americas… This nation will remain a neutral nation… I have said… many times…that I hate war… I hope the United States will keep out of this war… I give you…reassurance that every effort of your Government will be directed toward that end.”  FDR addressed a Press Conference in Hyde Park, New York, July 22, 1939: “On the neutrality thing, I have here forty-five newspaper editorials… showing how widespread is the general approval… to make the United States neutral and to help to avert war.” Franklin D. Roosevelt stated in a radio address to the Third Annual Women’s Conference, October 13, 1933: “It is the policy of this Government to avoid being drawn into wars between other Nations.”
“As a Nation, we are overwhelmingly against engaging in war… The policy of the Government is definitely committed to… the avoidance of any entanglements which would lead us into conflict.” FDR stated on February 29, 1936: “A definite step was taken toward enabling this country to maintain its neutrality and avoid being drawn into wars involving other Nations.”
“We have heard orators… beating their breasts… against sending the boys of American mothers to fight on the battlefields of Europe. That I do not hesitate to label as one of the worst fakes in current history. It is a deliberate setting up of an imaginary bogey man. The simple truth is that no person… in the national administration… has ever suggested… the remotest possibility of sending the boys of American mothers to fight on the battlefields of Europe. That is why I label that argument a shameless and dishonest fake.”
“I made a statement which was promptly twisted out of all semblance to what I said… They promptly tried to misquote… that we would promptly send two or three million American boys to the line, which was, of course, merely a political effort on their part to misrepresent.” At a campaign event in Philadelphia, October 23, 1940, FDR stated: “I give… to the people of this country this most solemn assurance: There is no secret treaty, no secret obligation, no secret commitment, no secret understanding in any shape or form, direct or indirect, with any other Government, or any other nation in any part of the world, to involve this nation in any war.”
“A few days ago… a person very high in Republican circles… I am telling you this story to illustrate these vicious misrepresentations… This leader said: ‘I want to tell you something off the record… The President of the United States has… orders… that the day after Election the whole of the United States Fleet, will proceed further westward… And that, you know, would be an act of war against Japan.’ Well, the fact is that… that it is a falsehood… I can cite to you many, many other examples of rumors…all of them untrue, but every one of them tending to make people believe that this country is going to war. Your President says this country is not going to war.”
“You undergraduates who see me for the first time have read your newspapers and heard on the air that I am, at the very least, an ogre-a consorter with Communists, a destroyer of the rich, a breaker of our ancient traditions… You have heard for six years that I was about to plunge the Nation into war; that you and your little brothers would be sent to the bloody fields of battle in Europe. (Laughter)”
Germany (1933)
FDR acknowledged at the Teamsters Union Convention, September 11, 1940, that only an attack would justify entering the war: “I stand, with my party…on the platform, the wording that was adopted in Chicago less than two months ago. It said: ‘We will not participate in foreign wars, and we will not send our Army, naval or air forces to fight in foreign lands outside of the Americas, except in case of attack.'”
“DECEMBER 7, 1941- a date which will live in infamy- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” Thus spoke President Franklin D. Roosevelt following the attack on Pearl Harbor by over 350 Japanese aircraft. Five American battleships and three destroyers were sunk, 400 planes were destroyed and over 4000 were killed or wounded.
President Roosevelt concluded: “No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory… We will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us.”
“Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces – with the unbounding determination of our people – we will gain the inevitable triumph – so help us God.” After four years, the Axis Powers were defeated. The World War II Memorial in Washington, DC, was dedicated in 2004. Of the over 500 words inscribed on it, the designers chose not to include FDR’s phrase “So help us God,” nor any other mention of God.
In his speeches, FDR mobilized the nation with quotes below, taken from: The Faith of FDR-From President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Public Papers 1933-1945 “THE WHOLE WORLD is divided between…pagan brutality and the Christian ideal. We choose human freedom which is the Christian ideal.” -FDR, May 27, 1941, Address Announcing Unlimited National Emergency “PRESERVATION OF THESE rights is vitally important now, not only to us who enjoy them – but to the whole future of Christian civilization.” -FDR, Sept. 1, 1941, Labor Day
“THOSE FORCES HATE democracy and Christianity…They oppose democracy because it is Christian. They oppose Christianity because it preaches democracy.” -FDR, Nov. 1, 1940, Brooklyn, NY “I SAW SEVASTOPOL and Yalta! And I know that there is not room enough on earth for both German militarism and Christian decency.” -FDR, March 1, 1945, on Yalta Conference “THIS GREAT WAR effort…shall not be imperiled by the handful of noisy traitors – betrayers of America, betrayers of Christianity itself.” -FDR, April 28, 1942, Fireside Chat
“I KNEW THAT someday Russia would return to religion for the simple reason that four or five thousand years of recorded history have proven that mankind has always believed in God in spite of the many abortive attempts to exile God.” -FDR, Feb. 10, 1940, American Youth Congress “AN ORDERING OF society which relegates religion…to the background can find no place within it for the ideals of the Prince of Peace. The United States rejects such an ordering, and retains its ancient faith.” -FDR, Jan. 4, 1939 “I DOUBT IF there is any problem in the world…that would not find happy solution if approached in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount…in conformity with the teaching of Him Who is the Way, the Light and the Truth.” -FDR, Oct. 1, 1938, New Orleans Eucharistic Congress “WE WILL CELEBRATE this Christmas Day in our traditional American way…because the teachings of Christ are fundamental in our lives; and because we want our youngest generation…knowing…the story of the coming of the immortal Prince of Peace.” -FDR, Dec. 24, 1944 “THE AMERICAN PEOPLE…have watched with sympathetic interest the effort of the Jews to renew in Palestine the ties of their ancient homeland and to reestablish Jewish culture in the place where for centuries it flourished and whence it was carried to the far corners of the world…It gives me great pleasure to send my warmest personal greetings.” -FDR, Feb. 6, 1937, United Palestine Appeal, Stephen Wise There Really is a Santa Claus-The History of Saint Nicholas & Christmas Holiday Traditions. |
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