Mobilization of Resources Quotes

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

The President knows that if this country needed a million men, and needed them in a day, the call would go out at sunrise and the sun would go down on a million men in arms.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

World War III was the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union. Like the Cold War, this "world war" against militant Islam is, in fact, global;... will involve a mixture of violent and nonviolent efforts;... will require mobilization of skill, expertise and resources, if not of vast numbers of soldiers;... may go on for a long time; and... has ideological roots. Afghanistan is just one front in World War IV.

Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort from its accumulated reserves and current revenues. Almost all war-making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens who have other uses for their resources.

There is no passion to which the rulers of a people can address themselves with greater [political] effect [than war.]

It seems to me worth while for this Government to try whether it will not work on a large enough scale to be of use in the event of war.

In World War II, the government went to the private sector. The government asked the private sector for help in doing things that the government could not do. The private sector complied. That is what I am suggesting.

Our forces will not be on the sidelines.

By God, you can't fight a war unless the people support it.

What distinguished the First World War from all wars before it was the massive power of the antagonists.

I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

Even if America entered the war, it is improbable that the Allied armies could invade Europe and overwhelm the Axis powers. But one thing is certain. If England can draw this country into the war, she can shift to our shoulders a large portion of the responsibility for waging it and for paying its cost.

To discover how much of our resources must be mobilized for war, we must first examine our political aim and that of the enemy. We must gauge the strength and situation of the opposite state. We must gauge the character and abilities of its government and people and do the same in regard to our own. Finally, we must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect the war may have on them.

It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a socialist society.

The whole industrial strength of the United States, should it be directed to war-making, would constitute power never dreamed of before... It would be a struggle in which all our strength would be needed—and the penalty for being unable to use all our strength would be the loss of everything we have.

We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canada's war effort as effective as possible.