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Today—every day—many times that number of men and many tons of cargo are carried across the ocean by air—they go across in a few hours.

I am deeply grateful, therefore, for this award.

We shall require—all of us—the same determination, the same devotion, as we steer our course through the great age of exploration...

When that military objective is accomplished—and much of it has not yet been accomplished—the Italian people will be free to work out their own destiny, under a government of their own choosing.

The American Army—including thousands of Americans of Italian descent—entered Italy not as conquerors, but as liberators.

This courage—which was his dominating trait—prompted him more than once to stand alone and to challenge the wisdom of counsels taken by powerful interests within his own party.

The Nation will long remember Wendell Willkie as a forthright American.

In this hour of grave crisis the country loses a great citizen through his untimely passing.

The right to vote must be open to us citizens irrespective of race, color or creed, without tax or artificial restriction of any kind. And the sooner we get to that basis of political equality, the better it'll be for the country as a…

I am deeply moved at the news that the liberation of Greece has begun.

It is more than fitting, it is inevitable, that as hopeless darkness is engulfing the ideals of Nazi barbarism the clear Greek air will once more be breathed by free men without fear of oppression.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves.

But all women, whether employed directly in war jobs or not, have a double obligation to express by their votes what I know to be their keen interest in the affairs of Government.

The full and free exercise of our sacred right and duty to vote is more important in the long run than the personal hopes or ambitions of any candidate for any office in the land.

The power of the will of the American people expressed through the free ballot... is the surest protection against the weakening of our democracy.

The land of opportunity— that's what our forefathers called this country.

We shall have to fight our way across the Rhine—we may have to fight every inch of the way to Berlin.

I know how difficult it is, especially for the many millions of women now employed, to get away to register and vote.

The right to vote must be open to our citizens irrespective of race, color, or creed—without tax or artificial restriction of any kind.

I have never sought, and I do not welcome the support of any person or group committed to Communism, or Fascism, or any other foreign ideology which would undermine the American system of government.

The American Government has survived and prospered for more than a century and a half.

It is for all of us Americans to see that the building of that future does not lag because the country schools are without the means to carry on their essential work even more than they have in the past.

We cannot be satisfied with the state of this Nation if a large percentage of our children are not being given the opportunity to achieve good health as well as good education.

Frank, friendly and warmhearted, honest as the noonday sun, he had the courage of his convictions.

Nothing can provide a stronger bulwark in the years to come than an educated and enlightened and tolerant citizenry.