| United States. Department of State - 1943 - 908 lapas
...know enough by now to realize that it would be suicide to wait until they are in our front yard. 668 When your enemy comes at you in a tank or a bombing...tomorrow may be several thousand miles from Boston. Anyone with an atlas and a reasonable knowledge of the sudden striking-force of modern war, knows that... | |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt - 1992 - 364 lapas
...the domination of any base which menaces our security — north or south. Nobody can foretell tonight just when the acts of the dictators will ripen into...tomorrow may be several thousand miles from Boston, Massachusetts. Anyone with an atlas, anyone with a reasonable knowledge of the sudden striking force... | |
| Michael Seidel - 2002 - 316 lapas
...influence from Greenland to the Cape Verde Islands. We would defend the seas as we defended our borders: "When your enemy comes at you in a tank or a bombing...tomorrow may be several thousand miles from Boston." In what came to be known as his "unlimited emergency" speech, Roosevelt echoed the energy of his attack... | |
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