
We shall not settle for less than total victory.
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We shall not settle for less than total victory.

The criminal, corrupt Fascist regime in Italy is going to pieces.

The heaviest and most decisive fighting today is going on in Russia.

I hope that the Congress will help in carrying out this assurance.

The militarists of Berlin and Tokyo started this war.

I don't think it's useful for me to go into the details of hypothetical questions.

Well, of course, that did not happen in 1917 and 1918.

There are too many people in this country who go after a slogan, who simplify things down.

Our need for money now is greater than ever, and will continue to grow until the very day that Victory is won; so we must ask far more sacrifice, far more cooperation than ever before.

It is hereby ordered that the total number of women enlisted or appointed in the Women's Army Corps shall not exceed two hundred thousand.

The sole hope for Italy's survival lies in honorable capitulation to the overwhelming power of the military forces of the United Nations.

The time has come for you, the Italian people, to consult your own self-respect and your own interests and your own desire for a restoration of national dignity, security, and peace.

It is my earnest hope that every American will realize that in buying War Bonds in this Third War Loan he has an opportunity to express voluntarily and under the guidance of his conscience, the extent to which he will 'back the attack.'

Your soldiers have fought not in the interests of Italy but for Nazi Germany.

I hereby invoke every citizen to give all possible aid and support to this Third War Loan drive.

We have been very anxious to have Rome declared an open city.