
To the people of Italy we have pledged our help—and we will keep the faith!
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To the people of Italy we have pledged our help—and we will keep the faith!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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