I am not going to urge you to vote.

I am simply going to express my opinion that anyone who does not vote at this election is a traitor to the Republic. And never knowingly will I shake hands with him or sit down to a meal with him. For, in the hour of gravest peril, he failed to do the only specific duty which is laid upon him as a citizen of this Republic. No one has a “duty” to be President, no one even has a “duty” to be a soldier until summoned by our Commander in Chief, but the humblest or laziest member of our society has a duty to vote.

Henry Luce, October 1940