9-08-xx FDR Speech There Can Be No Peace

It is becoming increasingly clear that peace by fear has no higher or more enduring quality than peace by the sword. There can be no peace if the reign of law is to be replaced by a recurrent sanctification of sheer force.

There can be no peace if national policy adopts as a deliberate instrument, the threat of war. There can be no peace if national policy adopts as a deliberate instrument, the dispersion all over the world of millions of helpless and persecuted wanderers with no place to lay their heads.

There can be no peace if humble men and women are not free to think their own thoughts, to express their own feelings and to worship God. There can be no peace of economic resources that ought to be devoted to social and economic reconstruction, or to be diverted to an intensified competition in ourments, a competition which

will merely heighten the suspicions and fears and threaten the economic prosperity of each and every nation.