States as a nation has at all times maintained opposition - clear, definite What I seek to convey is the historic truth that the United The West Indies, in the Mediterranean and in the Pacific, for the maintenance ofĪmerican rights and for the principles of peaceful commerce.īut in no case had a serious threat been raised against our national safety or We have evenĮngaged in two wars with European nations and in a number of undeclared wars in It is true that prior to 1914 the United States often has beenĭisturbed by events in other continents. Today, thank God, 130,000,000 Americans in 48 States haveįorgotten points of the compass in our national unity. These - the four-year war between the States - ever threatened our national unity. Since the permanent formation of our government under theĬonstitution in 1789, most of the periods of crisis in our history have related Seriously threatened from without as it is today.

“unprecedented” because at no previous time has American security been as Unprecedented in the history of the union. I address you, the members of this new Congress, at a moment

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