It is good to see the three services together.

I think that of the twelve that took part, seven broke down before they could get past.

They will decide, these people of ours, whether they will entrust the task of postwar reconversion to those who offered the veterans of the last war breadlines and apple-selling.

The objective at home and abroad has always been clear before us.

First, to win the war—to win the war fast, to win it overpoweringly.

I should, of course, be very glad to run with either of them and believe that either one of them would bring real strength to the ticket.

Together, the French and American peoples stand today, united as they have always been when the cause of freedom was endangered.

Together, we shall win, and France shall be free!

I have been associated with Henry Wallace during his past four years as Vice President.

I personally would vote for his renomination if I were a delegate to the convention.

I hereby suspend, from and including the effective date of the said Acts, compliance with the provisions of the said sections during the continuance of any of the wars in which the United States is now engaged.

I would accept and serve, but I would not run, in the usual partisan, political sense.

To win this war wholeheartedly, unequivocally, and as quickly as we can is our task of the first importance.

If the Convention should carry this out, and nominate me for the Presidency, I shall accept.

I feel... that it is my duty... to report to you the fact that the National Convention will during its deliberations in Chicago tender to you the nomination of the Party.

My principal objective, as you know, has been the protection of the rights and privileges and fortunes of what has been so well called the average of American citizens.

I call it historic because it is going to have a great influence on all of humanity.

There is something about France that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world.