Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Fireside Chat Warning that America Could Not Wall Itself Off From War in Europe

“Adolf Hitler never considered the domination of Europe as an end in itself… It is unmistakably apparent to all of us that, unless the advance of Hitlerism is forcibly checked now, the Western Hemisphere will be within range of the Nazi weapons of destruction....

… What place has religion which preaches the dignity of the human being, the majesty of the human soul, in a world where moral standards are measured by treachery and bribery and fifth columnists? Will our children, too, wander off, goose-stepping in search of new gods?”    

★ Franklin D. Roosevelt Press Release Signed and Inscribed to Missy LeHand, May 27, 1941. #25712.029