I am confident that your Committee will recommend legislation specifically aimed at making the Federal revenue system evasion-proof.
I hope your Committee, with the help of the Treasury, will formulate a tax bill which will convince the country that a national defense prog...
I am sure that you and I are agreed that defense is a national task to which every American must contribute in accordance with his talents a...
These regulations shall become effective on July 1, 1941.
I urged that additional tax measures should be based on the principle of ability to pay.
No effort or justifiable expense should be spared in speeding this program.
Our problem is to see to it that there is no idle critical machine in the United States.
It is essential that industry continue to increase the number of vital machines manufactured.
This defense savings program is rather a privilege and an opportunity—an opportunity to share in the defense of all the things we cherish ag...
I ask you to demonstrate again your faith in America by joining me in investing in the new defense savings bonds and stamps.
The goal should be to work these machines twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week.
Your Government, therefore, is arming, factories spring up, production multiplies—a country-wide unanimous effort of planning and of work.
I hereby further exempt the said Louis A. Simon from compulsory retirement for age for a period of six months ending November 30, 1941.
I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do hereby amend Executive Order No. 8389 of April 10, 1940.
The heroic struggle of the Hellenic people to defend their liberties and their homes against the aggression of Germany has stirred the heart...
Whatever may be the temporary outcome of the present phase of the war in Greece, I believe that the Greek people will once more ultimately a...
I think they speak for themselves pretty clearly: and for the great majority of the American people.
That is exactly the question I hoped you would ask.
