There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans h… - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected.

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen two hundred limping exhausted men come out of line-the survivors of a regiment of one thousand that went forward forty-eight hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

There are very few things we can know beforehand. We will try and if we find we are wrong, we will have to change.

Eight years ago, when the life of this Republic seemed frozen by a fatalistic terror, we proved that this is not true. We were in the midst of shock — but we acted. We acted quickly, boldly, decisively.