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Quotation from Pearl Harbor Address ("A Date Which Will Live in Infamy") by Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.”
Pearl Harbor Address ("A Date Which Will Live in Infamy"), Paragraph 16 (National Archives text)
The constitutional request to Congress, which alone can declare war.
Citation: "I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire." — Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pearl Harbor Address ("A Date Which Will Live in Infamy"), Paragraph 16 (National Archives text). (id pearl-harbor-address-q7)
Portrait: Fdr delivers speech, United States Government., Public domain.
