You are only an extra in everyone else's play. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The essence of our struggle is that men shall be free.

It is true that other Nations may, as they do, enforce contrary rules of conscience and conduct. It is true that policies may be pursued under flags other than our own, but those policies are beyond our jurisdiction. Yet in our inner individual lives we can never be indifferent, and we assert for ourselves complete freedom to embrace, to profess and to observe the principles for which our flag has so long been the lofty symbol. As it was so well said by James Madison, over a century ago: "We hold it for a fundamental and inalienable truth that religion and the manner of discharging it can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence."

I say that the delivery of needed supplies to Britain is imperative. I say that this can be done; it must be done; and it will be done…

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.