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We are bringing order out of the old chaos with a greater certainty of the employment of labor at a reasonable wage and of more business at a fair profit.

Private enterprise in times such as these cannot be left without assistance and without reasonable safeguards lest it destroy not only itself but also our processes of civilization.

Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance.

The emergency purpose of the N.R.A. was to put men to work.

It is the duty of the State to supplement, with the resources of the State, the additional needs up to the limit of the power of the State.

It is that personal appeal, that personal service, which has carried us through all these trying years.

The primary responsibility for community needs rests upon the community itself.

The social order cannot exist except upon the basis of a respect for and observance of the law.

I do hereby adopt and approve the report, recommendations, and findings of the Administrator.

I hereby amend the Executive order of June 30, 1934, no. 6770, creating the Industrial Emergency Committee.

Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, pursuant to the authority vested in me by Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, do hereby order that the said Agreement is hereby approved.

It shall be the duty of said Industrial Emergency Committee to make recommendations to the President through its Director.

I tell you of my conviction that our people have both feet on the ground.

The greatest achievement of the past two years in the United States has been the fact that the American people have taken a greater interest in current problems.

Fortunately the overwhelming mass of the American people pay no more attention to this kind of rumor than I do.

The world as a whole is making progress in meeting current problems.

More and more people are doing their own thinking.