Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1945
AUTHOR:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945)
QUOTATION:
And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.
ATTRIBUTION:
President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, campaign speech, Boston, Massachusetts, October 30, 1940.—The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940, p. 517 (1941).
