American History: "These Truths," Jill Lepore; Part 3

Part Three: The State 1866-1945

“Decisions in a modern state tend to be made by the interaction, not of Congress and the executive, but of public opinion and the executive.”
Walter Lippman, “The Basic Problem of Democracy,” 1919

“We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender…until in God’s good time, the new world, with all its power and might , steps for the to the rescue and the liberation of the old.” Winston Churchill
--Roosevelt pounded the same image at home

“We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.” FDR

“…golden opportunity to assume leadership of the world.” FDR

“…the moral and practical bankruptcy of any and all forms of isolationism.” FDR

“The 20th Century is the American century.” FDR

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