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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 11, 1944

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

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 11, 1944

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

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 7, 1944

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

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 7, 1944

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.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 7, 1944

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

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 5, 1944

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

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 5, 1944

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.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 5, 1944

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…

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 4, 1944

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

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 4, 1944

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

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 4, 1944

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

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 4, 1944

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

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 4, 1944

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

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 4, 1944

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.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 4, 1944

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

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 4, 1944

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.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 4, 1944

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

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