The PEOPLE of the United States are justly proud of their literary men and women.

The George Washington Commission takes great satisfaction in rendering this public service.

Literary power and statesmanship were combined in George Washington.

What Washington says for himself will also be the foundation of our appreciation of his great abilities and immense services as the leader of the Continental Army.

One deviation has been made from the plan of including all of Washington's writings in this edition.

They likewise are proud of their outstanding statesmen.

It is hereby ordered, under authority contained in the act of June 21, 1906 (34 Stat. 325-326), that the trust period on allotments made to Indians on the Pine Ridge Reservation, S. Dak., which trust period expires during the calendar year…

The ultimate goal of the American social ideal is equality of opportunity and individual initiative.

Lincoln led in founding the Republican Party and he gloried in his party.

The true growth of the Nation is the growth of character in its citizens.

It was indeed a great prophecy.

Our concept of Federal, State, and local responsibilities is possible of no unchangeable definitions and it must shift with the moving forces in the Nation.

No stronger statement has ever been made than that of Lincoln upon obedience to law as the very foundation of our Republic.

I am convinced that where Federal action is essential then in most cases it should limit its responsibilities to supplement the States and local communities, and that it should not assume the major role or the entire responsibility, in…

While the dramatic period of Lincoln's life was engrossed with these tremendous problems, yet he was a man of many interests.

Where people divest themselves of local government responsibilities they at once lay the foundation for the destruction of their liberties.

The whole of our governmental machinery was devised for the purpose that through ordered liberty we give incentive and equality of opportunity to every individual to rise to that highest achievement of which he is capable.

Success is not gained by leaning upon government to solve all the problems before us.