FDR "They may talk of a "new order" in the world, but what they have in mind is only a revival of the oldest and the worst tyranny."

Roosevelt's Fireside Chat, 29 December 1940

FROM: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Roosevelt%27s_Fireside_Chat,_29_December_1940

“The history of recent years proves that the shootings and the chains and the concentration camps are not simply the transient tools but the very altars of modern dictatorships. They may talk of a "new order" in the world, but what they have in mind is only a revival of the oldest and the worst tyranny. In that there is no liberty, no religion, no hope.

The proposed "new order" is the very opposite of a United States of Europe or a United States of Asia. It is not a Government based upon the consent of the governed. It is not a union of ordinary, self-respecting men and women to protect themselves and their freedom and their dignity from oppression. It is an unholy alliance of power and pelf to dominate and to enslave the human race.”