Against the Day (quote) - FDR

[Dave Monroe]

State of the Union 1938

Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the Senate and
the House fo Representatives, in addressing the
Congress on the state fo the union present facts and
future hazards demand that I speak clearly and
earnestly of the causes which underlie events of
profound concern to all.

In spite of clear determination of this nation for
peace, it has become clear that acts and policies of
nations in other parts of the world have far-reaching
effects not only upon their immediate neighbors but
also upon us.

I am thankful that I can tell you that our nation is
at peace. It has been kept at peace despite
provocations which in other days, because of their
seriousness, could well have engendered war. The
people of the United States and the Government of the
United States have shown capacity for restraint and a
civilized approach to the purposes of peace, while at
the same time we maintain the integrity inherent in
the sovereignty of 1300,000,000 people, lest we weaken
or destroy our influence for peace and jeopardize the
sovereignty itself.

It is our traditional policy to live at peace with
other nations. More than that, we have been among the
leaders in advocating the use of pacific methods of
discussion and conciliation in international
differences. We have striven for the reduction of
military forces.

But in a world of high tension and disorder, in a
world where stable civilization is actually
threatened, it becomes the responsibility of each
nation which strives for peace at home and peace with
and among others to be strong enough to assure the
observance of those fundamentals of peaceful solution
of conflicts which are the only ultimate basis for
orderly existence.

Resolute in our determination to respect the rights of
others, and to command respect for the rights of
ourselves, we must keep ourselves adequately strong in
self-defense.

[...]

At home, conditions call for my equal candor....

[...]

Much of the trouble in our own lifetime has sprung
form a long period of inaction - from ignoring what
fundamentally was happening to us, and from a
time-serving unwillingness to face facts as they
forced themselves upon us.

[...]

Since 1933 we have knowingly faced a choice fo three
remedies...

[...]

It means adequate reserves against the day of
drought....

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/P/fr32/speeches/su38fdr.htm

To his laughing inquiry I made answer that the lad
would occasionally be tempted by the sunshine and some
game up by the golf-grounds, whereupon I would caution
him to keep his record clear against the day when he
would see the President, who, being the boys’ as well
as the papas’ President, would naturally ask him if he
"went regular."

http://www.bartelby.net/206/11.html

--- Jeremy Rice <jrice024 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> The true conservative is the man who has a real
> concern for injustices and takes thought against
> the day of reckoning.
> 
> - Franklin D. Roosevelt, from his speech September
> 29th, 1936 - Syracuse, NY

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