We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were. No one could have visualized Pearl Harbor, either out there or in Washington. But if we had known then what we know now, we would have expected an attack in 1941.


The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Victory and the threshold of peace, 1944-45 (ed. 1938)

Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one...

We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one...

We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one...

We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one...