"You, as representatives of the American people have before you the glorious opportunity of carrying on the pioneer work of your ancestors, beyond the frontiers of physical and geographical limitations. Their brawn and thews braved undoubtedly almost unbelievable hardships to open up the new continent.
The modern world knows them for their vigor and intensity of purpose and for their accomplishments.
You have today before you, the immeasurably greater opportunity to implement these same ideals and to help bring about the liberation of man's spirit in every part of the world. In order to accomplish this purpose, we of the United Nations must now so prosecute the war that victory will be ours decisively and with all good speed.
Sun Tzu, the well known Chinese strategist said 'In order to win, know thyself and thy enemy.' We have also the saying 'It takes little effort to watch the other fellow carry the load.' In spite of these teachings from a wise old past which are shared by every nation, there has been a tendency to belittle the strength of our opponents. When Japan thrust total war on China in 1937, military experts of every nation did not give China even a ghost of a chance. But, when Japan failed to bring China cringing to her knees as she wanted, the world took solace in this phenomenon by declaring that they had overestimated Japan's military might......
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