09/10/1940
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"I cannot forget that in carrying out this program I have drafted into the service of the nation many men and women."
"The task of safeguarding our institutions seems to me to be twofold."
"I must confess that I do so with mixed feelings—because I find myself, as almost everyone does sooner or later in his lifetime, in a conflict between deep personal desire for retirement on the one han..."
"It is our credo-unshakable to the end—that we must live under the liberties that were first heralded by Magna Carta and placed into glorious operation through the Declaration of Independence."