Our determination to make such sacrifices as are necessary for the common good ought to be strengthened.

Knowledge without goodness is dangerous.

It was to be a national school of breadth and of vision, of freedom and of equality, dedicated without reserve to the service of God and man.

Next after his duty to his Maker, Samuel Phillips placed his duty to his country.

It is far better to master a few subjects thoroughly than to have a mass of generalizations about many subjects.

The significance of this occasion, however, lies not in the number of days but in the importance of purpose and the magnitude of accomplishment.

It is more than the passage of time that brings us here to observe and celebrate this anniversary of Phillips Academy.

If there was to be popular sovereignty, if there was to be popular government, there must be popular education.

I am constrained, therefore, to withhold my approval of this bill.

I am not unmindful of the primary purpose of this bill to coordinate the public-health activities of the Government, and the importance of enlarging the facilities of the Public Health Service to enable it to deal more effectively with…

But more important still, I do not believe that permanency of appointment of those engaged in the professional and scientific activities of the Government is necessary for progress or accomplishment in those activities or in keeping with…

I have very little information about the investigation going on before the Federal Trade Commission relative to the electric power companies.

Attached hereto is a letter from the Secretary of War setting out reasons why this bill ought not to become a law.

If it stood by itself it might not be important enough to warrant a veto.

H.R. 4664, entitled 'An act for the relief of Capt. George R. Armstrong, United States Army, retired,' is hereby returned without my approval.

The other provisions of the bill have my entire approval, and if the unconstitutional feature should be removed and the militarization feature removed I should be pleased to approve it.

It is a bill, however, of a series which have been passed, two of which have already reached me, and taken in its connection with others of a like nature I am unable to give it my approval.

This investigation by the Trade Commission may perhaps reveal facts that will be helpful to state commissions in administering the powers that have been conferred upon them for the regulation and control of electric companies.