
I have called this special session of Congress to redeem two pledges given in the last election--farm relief and limited changes in the tariff.
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I have called this special session of Congress to redeem two pledges given in the last election--farm relief and limited changes in the tariff.

Every important scientific achievement is a step forward in the direction of better universal understanding and good will.

The difficulties of agriculture cannot be cured in a day; they cannot all be cured by legislation; they cannot be cured by the Federal Government alone.

It is very fitting that distinguished educators and other public spirited Americans are paying this tribute to Professor Einstein.

Mr. MacCracken probably will retire in a couple of months, and there has been no consideration of his successor yet.

Professor Einstein ranks high among the foremost scientists of all time, who have enriched mankind by their invaluable contributions to thought and human progress.

No governmental agency should engage in the buying and selling and price fixing of products, for such courses can lead only to bureaucracy and domination.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to commit any of the acts herein enumerated under the penalties prescribed by Sections 52, 53, and 84, as amended April 15, 1924, of the United States Penal Code, and the Alaska game law…

It appears to expect me to perform two separate duties, which occasionally in some degree seem to conflict.

Ours is a government by opinion and the press is the most important part of that process.

It is the right and duty of Congress to investigate and formulate legislation.

I owe to them a larger obligation for the courtesy of these dinners for over 17 years.

The objects to be gained by cooperation within an administration between the administration and Congress, between the administration and the leaders of our economic and social forces, are not the pawns of politics; they are not the…

Fishing is the only labor or recreation open to a President in which both the press and the public are prepared to concede privacy.

Our form of government can succeed only by cooperation--not only by cooperation within the administrative arm of the Government and cooperation with Congress, but also by cooperation with the press, cooperation with business, and the…

I am well aware of the difficulties of a program of close cooperation.

The ideal solution, of course, would be to excite the press without exciting the country.