The Arsenal of Democracy Quotes

“We must be,” the President said, “the great arsenal of democracy.”
― A.J. Baime, The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Ford Motor Company, and Their Epic Quest to Arm an America at War

“Last night at five o’clock I took a call from a person who refused to give his name,” the letter read”
― A.J. Baime, The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Ford Motor Company, and Their Epic Quest to Arm an America at War

“With his team of handpicked Washington operatives”
― A.J. Baime, The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Ford Motor Company, and Their Epic Quest to Arm an America at War

“Of all the wartime production centers”
― A.J. Baime, The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Ford Motor Company, and Their Epic Quest to Arm an America at War

“According to government contracts”
― A.J. Baime, The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Ford Motor Company, and Their Epic Quest to Arm an America at War

“Thus”
― A.J. Baime, The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Ford Motor Company, and Their Epic Quest to Arm an America at War

“Privately”
― A.J. Baime, The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Ford Motor Company, and Their Epic Quest to Arm an America at War

“In the fall of 1937”
― A.J. Baime, The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Ford Motor Company, and Their Epic Quest to Arm an America at War

“Unlike his father”
― A.J. Baime, The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Ford Motor Company, and Their Epic Quest to Arm an America at War

“At the same time”
― A.J. Baime, The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Ford Motor Company, and Their Epic Quest to Arm an America at War

“movement”
― A.J. Baime, The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Ford Motor Company, and Their Epic Quest to Arm an America at War

“noble in motive’ but disastrous in result.”
― A.J. Baime, The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Ford Motor Company, and Their Epic Quest to Arm an America at War

“The Fords were the first in the country to lay a concrete landing strip, the first to build an airport hotel for out-of-town flyboys (the 108-room Dearborn Inn, which is still there), and the first private company to take on a US Air Mail Service contract.”
― A.J. Baime, The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Ford Motor Company, and Their Epic Quest to Arm an America at War

“The whole industrial strength of the United States, should it be directed toward war-making, would constitute power never dreamed of before in the history of Armageddon. . . . 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 had.”
― A.J. Baime, The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Ford Motor Company, and Their Epic Quest to Arm an America at War