We must be the great arsenal of Democracy. ✨ Radio broadcast, 29 Dec. …

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We must be the great arsenal of Democracy. ✨ Radio broadcast, 29 Dec. 1940. According to Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men (1986), this slogan was picked up for Roosevelt's address after it was used in conversation by John McCloy, who had gotten it from Jean Monnet.
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