“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.”
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
December 7, 1941
