FC rally
FC rally"We are assembled here tonight because we believe in an independent destiny for America. Such a destiny does not mean that we will build a wall around our country and isolate ourselves form contact with the rest of the world. But it does mean the future of America will not be tied to these eternal wars in Europe. It means that American boys will not be sent across the ocean to die so that England or Germany or France or Spain may dominate the other nations. . .
We in America should have no reason to fear. With adequate leadership we can be the stronger and most influential nation in the world . . . We lack only a leadership that places America first - a leadership that tells what it means and what it says. Five us that wand we will be the most powerful country in the world. . .
Our country is not divided today because we fear war, or sacrifice, or because we fear anything at all. We are divided because we are asked to fight over issues that are Europe's and not ours - issues that Europe created by her own shortsightedness. We are divided because many of us do not wish to fight again for England's balance of power, or for her domination of India, Mesopotamia, or Egypt, or for the Polish Corridor, or for another treaty like Versailles. We are divided because we do not want to cross an ocean to fight on foreign continents, for foreign causes, against an entire world combined against us. . ."
- Charles Lindbergh at AFC Rally in Madison Square Garden, New York.