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...most of their increased income, piled up new savings at the rate of $25 billion a year v. only $11 billion in 1941. Trouble is, Americans are buying only $8 billion in war bonds a year, hence by year's end will have $17 billion in cash to squander...
...encircled, trapped or minced to pieces by superior steel. No wild imagining is needed to assess the results. Hitler could return westward with countless legions, unnumbered machines, could devote all his energies to settling his accounts with this island. He would have riches to gamble and weapons to squander. This conclusion we dare not in our senses contemplate...
...interventionists' bargain, as he saw it, was a bad one. To line up with Britain would be "just like a well-organized, money-making business deciding to take a bankrupt firm in as partner." In that "impractical" partnership, the U.S. would squander its treasury and its sons' blood. The strain would be too much for democracy, some form of totalitarianism would have to be set up. The net: turmoil, chaos, revolution...
Sirens had sounded. Most of London had descended into shelters, but to those in the cabaret, time seemed too dear to squander underground. Bombs began to fall near by: it was London's worst night raid in weeks. The orchestra played Oh, Johnny a little louder...
...citizens of 1940 are the trustees of the future of these United States. We shall be rightly condemned by posterity if we needlessly become involved in war and squander life and treasure. But we shall be yet more guilty in the eyes of our descendants if we fall to preserve our heritage of freedom--if we fall because of timidity or lack of far-sighted resolution. The decision is momentous. Those who feel as I do believe the future of human liberty is at stake...