For the point that needs emphasizing, over and over again, is that America was confronted in the fall of 1941 not only by a military challenge but by a moral challenge as well. It not only had to win the war; it had to win it in a way that would show what democracy could do when it was doing its absolute best. A military victory by itself was not going to be enough. Through the victory, and beyond it, democracy somehow had to find its strength- and, finding it, had to know that it had found it, had to know how it had found it, so that what democracy is could speak all across the world with a clear and confident voice that all men would want to listen.
From War Lords Of Washington, page 50
From War Lords Of Washington, page 50