Infamy

Yesterday, December 7, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. ...

With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), American statesman and political leader who served as President of the United States from 1933 to 1945, Address to Congress after the attack on Pearl Harbor (8 December 1941)