death is at your doorstep and it will steal your innocence but it will not steal your substance

[linanelle]

With this rude awakening has come fear, fear bordering on panic. It is said that we are defenseless. It is whispered by some that, only by abandoning our freedom, our ideals, our way of life, can we build our defenses adequately, can we match the strength of the aggressors.

I did not share those illusions. I do not share these fears...
Spoken by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Fireside Chat 15: On National Defense (May 26, 1940)