“the people of europe who are defending themselves do not ask us to do their fighting. they ask us for ( which will enable them to fight for their liberty and our security. emphatically we must get these weapons to them in sufficient volume and quickly enough, so that we and our children will be saved the agony and suffering of war which others have had to ” – president franklin d. roosevelt, december 29, 1940 the foreign policy objective stated by president roosevelt in this address was to