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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. "The Arsenal of Democracy." Fireside Chat. 29 Dec. 1940, Diplomatic Reception Room, White House, Washington, DC, USA. Radio broadcast.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Last Tycoon. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941, notes.

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Keller, Helen. Let Us Have Faith. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1940.

Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

Tom Joad

The Grapes of Wrath

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The Grapes of Wrath. Directed by John Ford. 20th Century Fox, 1940.

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Churchill, Winston. "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat." House of Commons meeting. 13 May 1940, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK. Address.

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Churchill, Winston. "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat." Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches, edited by David Cannadine. Penguin Classics, 2007.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Notebook O: Observations." The Crack-Up, edited by Edmund Wilson. New Directions, 2009. Originally published in Notebook O, c. 1940.

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Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940, bk. 1.

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Rebecca. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Selznick International Pictures, 1940.

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Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940, bk. 3.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene

The Power and the Glory

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Greene, Graham. The Power and the Glory. William Heineman, 1940, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "To: Scottie Fitzgerals, October 5, 1940." Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Scribner, 1995. Originally from Letter to Frances Scott Fitzgerald, 5 Oct. 1940.

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Churchill, Winston. "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat." House of Commons meeting. 13 May 1940, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK. Address.

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Churchill, Winston. "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat." Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches, edited by David Cannadine. Penguin Classics, 2007.

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Churchill, Winston. Report on the war. House of Commons meeting. 8 Oct. 1940, London, England, UK. Address.

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Churchill, Winston. "'We can take it!' 8 October 1940, House of Commons." Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches. Hyperion, 2005.

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De Gaulle, Charles. Address on the Eve of France's National Day. 13 July 1940. France. Radio address.

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De Gaulle, Charles. "July 13, 1940." The Speeches of General de Gaulle. Oxford University Press, 1944.

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MacArthur, Douglas. Statement on aid to Great Britain. 16 Sept. 1940.

Work liberates.

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Words inscribed on the gates of Dachau concentration camp, 1933, and subsequently on those of Auschwitz.

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Inscription. Appears over the entrance of various Nazi Germany concentration camps. c. 1940.

Luck, if you will, is something you work for, and the harder you work the more luck you have.

Esther Eberstadt Brooke

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Brooke, Esther Eberstadt. Career Clinic: The Answer to Your Job Problem. Farrar & Rinehart, 1940, pt. 3, ch. 2.

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Chandler, Raymond. Farewell, My Lovely. Alfred A. Knopf, 1940, ch. 13.

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The Grapes of Wrath. Directed by John Ford. 20th Century Fox, 1940.

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Address to the Delegates of the American Youth Congress. 10 Feb. 1940, Washington, DC, USA.