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Quotation from Pearl Harbor Address ("A Date Which Will Live in Infamy") by Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger.”
Pearl Harbor Address ("A Date Which Will Live in Infamy"), Paragraph 14 (National Archives text)
Two words stating that the war is already a fact, followed by a sober warning.
Citation: "Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger." — Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pearl Harbor Address ("A Date Which Will Live in Infamy"), Paragraph 14 (National Archives text). (id pearl-harbor-address-q5)
Portrait: Fdr delivers speech, United States Government., Public domain.
