US Presidency
1944

And it goes almost without saying, too, that we must continue to provide our Government with the funds necessary for waging war not only by the payment of taxes which, after all, is an obligation of American citizenship but also by the purchase of War Bonds an act of free choice which every citizen has to make for himself under the guidance of his own conscience. Whatever else any of us may be doing, the purchase of War Bonds and stamps is something all of us can do and should do to help win the war. I am happy to report tonight that it is something which something nearly everyone seems to be doing. Although there are now approximately sixty-seven million persons who have or earn some form of income ( including the armed forces ), eighty-one million persons or their children have already bought war bonds. They have bought more than six hundred million individual bonds. Their purchases have totaled more than thirty two billion dollars. These are the purchases of individual men, women and children.