No American will think it wrong of me if I proclaim that to have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy… So we had won after all!

… to me the best tidings of all is that the United States, united as never before, have drawn the sword for freedom and cast away the scabbard.

Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame of anger against the brutal, corrupt invader … In a dozen famous ancient States now prostrate under the Nazi yoke, the masses of the people … await the hour of liberation … That hour will strike, and its solemn peal will proclaim that the night is past and that the dawn has come.

There is only one thing certain about war, that it is full of disappointments and also full of mistakes.

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us rather speak of sterner days. These are not dark days; these are great days—the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.

This war effort could not have been achieved if the women had not marched forward in millions and undertaken all kinds of tasks and work for which any other generation but our own…would have considered them unfitted; work in the fields, heavy work in the foundries and in the shops, very refined work on radio and precision instruments, work in the hospitals, responsible clerical work of all kinds, work throughout the munitions facto- ries, work in the mixed batteries…. Nothing has been grudged, and the bounds of women’s activities have been definitely, vastly, and permanently enlarged.

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