By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.

For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.