Ongoing Legacies: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quote

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Some people seem to think that we are not attacked until bombs actually drop in the streets of New York or San Francisco or New Orleans or Chicago. But they are simply shutting their eyes to the lesson that we must learn from the fate of every Nation that the Nazis have conquered.[…] Nobody can foretell tonight just when the acts of the dictators will ripen into attack on this hemisphere and us. But we know enough by now to realize that it would be suicide to wait until they are in our front yard. When your enemy comes at you in a tank or a bombing plane, if you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you. Our Bunker Hill of tomorrow may be several thousand miles from Boston, Massachusetts.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "Radio Address Announcing an Unlimited National Emergency," May 27, 1941.

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Quote from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "Radio Address Announcing an Unlimited National Emergency," May 27, 1941.

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