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Adolf Hitler's ambitions were not ambiguous for anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear. It was into this background and with a serious purpose that FDR began his speech. Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, members of the 76th Congress, in reporting on the state of the nation, I have felt it necessary on previous occasions to advise the Congress of disturbance abroad and of the need of putting our own house in order in the face of storm signals from across the seas. As this 76th Congress opens, there is need for further warning.
A war which threatened to envelop the world in flames has been averted, but it has become increasingly clear that world peace is not assured. All about us rage undeclared powers, military and economic. All about us grow more deadly armaments, military and economic.
All about us are threats of new aggressions, military and economic. Roosevelt knew that Hitler had been gearing up Germany's war machine for years, including the world's first operational air force. By contrast, America had the 18th largest army in the world, just ahead of Holland. Argentina and Hungary had bigger armies.
And there was a reason why. In less than six months of fighting during World War I, 53,000 Americans were killed in battle and another 63,000 from accidents and disease. Americans wanted nothing to do with another war in Europe.
And what better way to do that than to dismantle our defense industry with companies like DuPont and Remington pulling out of the military contracting business all together. No one understood this backdrop better than FDR. He also understood that much was at stake with the rise of Germany, civilization itself and its foundations, religious liberty and religion itself. Storms were abroad directly challenged three institutions indispensable to Americans now as always. The first is religion. Religion is the source of the other two, democracy and international good faith. Religion by teaching man his relationship to God gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors. Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
International good faith, a sister of democracy, springs from the will of civilized nations of men to respect the rights and the liberties of other nations of men. In a modern civilization, all three, religion, democracy and international good faith, complement and support each other. What a beautiful recognition by FDR about religion and its vital role in any democracy. But he wasn't finished talking about religion.
Indeed, he was getting to the most important and most urgent point. Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to society. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of free worship has disappeared. And where religion and democracy have vanished, good faith and reason in international affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force. An ordering of society which relegates religion, democracy and good faith among nations to the background can find no place within it for the ideals of the Prince of Peace.
The United States rejects such an ordering and retains its ancient fate. FDR made a clear statement here about the role of religion in America, citing the ideals of the Prince of Peace. He then closes out the most important part of one of his most important speeches with these words. There comes a time in the affairs of men when they must prepare to defend not their homes alone but the tenets of faith and humanity on which their churches, their governments and their very foundations are set. The defense of religion, of democracy and of good faith among nations is all the same fate.
To save one, we must now make up our minds to save all. What a clear statement about America's first freedom, religious freedom, which appears even before the freedom of speech in the First Amendment. The story of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's State of the Union speech, his sixth in 1939, here on Our American Stories. This is Lee Habib, host of Our American Stories. Every day, we set out to tell the stories of Americans past and present, from small towns to big cities, and from all walks of life doing extraordinary things. But we truly can't do this show without you. Our shows are free to listen to, but they're not free to make. If you love what you hear, go to OurAmericanStories.com and make a donation to keep the stories coming.
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