"The time for active defense is now."
"This was piracy- piracy legally and morally."
"Germany admits that it was a German submarine."
"I assume that the German leaders are not deeply concerned, tonight or any other time, by what we Americans or the American Government say or publish about them."
"No act of violence, no act of intimidation will keep us from maintaining intact two bulwarks of American defense."
"It is no act of war on our part when we decide to protect the seas that are vital to American defense."
"Now threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce."
"I do hereby create a board to be composed of 5 persons not pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of railway employees or any carrier."
"By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, and in order to define further the functions and duties of the Office of Production Management."
"I hereby prescribe the following regulations for the administration of the within-grade salary advancement plan established by that section."
"It is hereby ordered as follows: Upon recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Civil Service Commission is authorized and directed to confer a classified civil service status upon any pers..."
"By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, and in order to define further the functions and duties of the Office for Emergency Management of the Exe..."
"it is necessary for national defense purposes that there be constructed and completed a pipe line system for the transportation and distribution of petroleum and petroleum products moving in interstat..."
"it is ordered that, subject to valid existing rights, the following-described public land be, and it is hereby, withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public-land laws"
"It is ordered that the designation of Peskan, Montana, as a customs port of entry be, and it is hereby, revoked."
"No article or material, the exportation of which is prohibited or curtailed pursuant to the said section 6, shall be loaded or carried onto an exporting carrier for export by water or by air or presen..."
"Export licenses shall not be transferred except by written authorization of the Secretary of State."
"That is the indestructible bond that is between us—between all of us Americans: interdependence of interests, privileges, opportunities, responsibilities—interdependence of rights."
