September 21, 1935
My most cordial congratulations upon your election to the highest office within the gift of the Filipino people. Your overwhelming choice by the electorate is a fitting culmination of your many years of patriotic labor in behalf of your country.
Hon. Manuel L. Quezon,
President-Elect of the Commonwealth Government of the Philippine Islands,
Manila, P. I.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Congratulations to the First President-Elect of the Philippine Islands. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/209149