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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Apr 13, 1938

I believe we have been right in the course we have charted.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Apr 13, 1938

National and international law and morality are not the restraints of weaklings; they are signs of serene strength.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Apr 13, 1938

We must start again on a long steady upward incline in national income.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Apr 13, 1938

The prosperity of the United States is of necessity a primary concern of Government.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Apr 13, 1938

Let us unanimously recognize the fact that the Federal debt... can only be paid if the Nation obtains a vastly increased citizen income.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Apr 13, 1938

Our democratic system has conferred on all of us an inestimable gift of individual liberty within the law.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Apr 13, 1938

We need more than the materials of recovery. We need a united national will.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Apr 13, 1938

nothing herein contained shall restrict prospecting, locating, developing, mining, entering, leasing, or patenting the mineral resources of such land under the applicable laws.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Apr 13, 1938

Self-restraint implies restraint by articulate public opinion, trained to distinguish fact from falsehood.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Apr 13, 1938

Never was that significance greater than today.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Apr 13, 1938

I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Apr 13, 1938

We have learned in this Western Hemisphere what community of interest really means.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Apr 13, 1938

Your money in the bank is safe; farmers are no longer in deep distress and have greater purchasing power; dangers of security speculation have been minimized.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Apr 12, 1938

Equal taxation of incomes of similar size and equal taxation of corporations and individual taxpayers are axiomatic.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Apr 12, 1938

There is no fairness in taxing the salaried man and the merchant upon their incomes and taxing at far lower rates the profits on the capital of the speculator.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Apr 11, 1938

The Secretary of State is authorized in his discretion to waive the passport and visa requirements in cases of emergency for non-immigrant aliens.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Apr 11, 1938

Immigrants must present unexpired passports, or official documents in the nature of passports.

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