We must keep him far from our shores, for we intend to bring this battle to him on his own home grounds.

American armed forces must be used at any place in all the world where it seems advisable to engage the forces of the enemy.  In some cases these operations will be defensive, in order to protect key positions.  In other cases, these operations will be offensive, in order to strike at the common enemy, with a view to his complete encirclement and eventual total defeat.

American armed forces will operate at many points in the Far East.

American armed forces will be on all the oceans—­helping to guard the essential communications which are vital to the United Nations.

American land and air and sea forces will take stations in the British Isles—­which constitute an essential fortress in this great world struggle.

American armed forces will help to protect this hemisphere—­and also help to protect bases outside this hemisphere, which could be used for an attack on the Americas.

If any of our enemies, from Europe or from Asia, attempt long-range raids by “suicide” squadrons of bombing planes, they will do so only in the hope of terrorizing our people and disrupting our morale.  Our people are not afraid of that.  We know that we may have to pay a heavy price for freedom.  We will pay this price with a will.  Whatever the price, it is a thousand times worth it.  No matter what our enemies, in their desperation, may attempt to do to us—­we will say, as the people of London have said, “We can take it.”  And what’s more we can give it back and we will give it back—­with compound interest.

When our enemies challenged our country to stand up and fight, they challenged each and every one of us.  And each and every one of us has accepted the challenge—­for himself and for his Nation.

There were only some 400 United States Marines who in the heroic and historic defense of Wake Island inflicted such great losses on the enemy.  Some of those men were killed in action; and others are now prisoners of war.  When the survivors of that great fight are liberated and restored to their homes, they will learn that a hundred and thirty million of their fellow citizens have been inspired to render their own full share of service and sacrifice.

We can well say that our men on the fighting fronts have already proved that Americans today are just as rugged and just as tough as any of the heroes whose exploits we celebrate on the Fourth of July.

Many people ask, “When will this war end?” There is only one answer to that.  It will end just as soon as we make it end, by our combined efforts, our combined strength, our combined determination to fight through and work through until the end—­the end of militarism in Germany and Italy and Japan.  Most certainly we shall not settle for less.

That is the spirit in which discussions have been conducted during the visit of the British Prime Minister to Washington.  Mr. Churchill and I understand each other, our motives and our purposes.  Together, during the past two weeks, we have faced squarely the major military and economic problems of this greatest world war.