Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Churchill

The previous day, Japan had launched a surprise attack against Pearl Harbor. Losses were devastating: Thousands of Americans were killed and wounded. In launching the surprise offensive, Japanese military command hoped that, in addition to disabling the U.S. naval fleet, the attack would depress American morale and push the isolationist U.S. deeper into a strictly defensive role in World War II. However, Pearl Harbor had the opposite effect.
Overnight, American society rallied behind President Roosevelt...

   Dwight D. Eisenhower - D-Day Address June 6, 1944

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Forces: You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle-hardened...

   Winston Churchill - This was their finest hour (1940)

You will hear Churchill delicately urging the U.S.  get more  involved, before all as we know it, ceases to exist...
 

"Their finest hour."
In the summer of 1940, the democracies of continental Europe fell to Germany one by one, leaving Great Britain alone in its resistance to Adolf Hitler. The Nazi leader was confident that victory against Britain would come soon, but Churchill prophesied otherwise, telling his countrymen that the Battle of Britain would be...