"I hereby suspend compliance with the provisions of the said sections during the continuance of the national emergency proclaimed to exist by Proclamation No. 2352 dated September 8, 1939."
"It is hereby declared to be the duty of employers and employees engaged in production or transportation of materials essential to national defense to exert every possible effort to settle all their di..."
"They accept it for themselves because, in the past few years, they have come to understand that the inheritance is theirs and that, like other inheritors of other things of great value, they have a du..."
"Today they are not only works of art."
"I think it signifies a relation—a new relation here made visible in paint and in stone—between the whole people of this country, and the old inherited tradition of the arts."
"I accept for the people of the United States and on their behalf this National Gallery and the collections it contains."
"The true collectors are the collectors who understand this."
"America is not a country which can be confounded by the appeasers, the defeatists, the backstairs manufacturers of panic."
"We, the American people, are writing new history today."
"No alterations may be made in export licenses which have been issued by the Administrator of Export Control except by the Administrator."
"History cannot be rewritten by wishful thinking."
"Let me make it clear that the Nation is calling for the sacrifice of some privileges, not for the sacrifice of fundamental rights."
"The light of democracy must be kept burning."
"Loyalty cannot be bought."
"This is no part-time job."
"I hereby prescribe the following regulations governing the exportation of articles and materials."
"Yes, the decisions of our democracy may be slowly arrived at."
"Export licenses are not transferable and are subject to revocation without notice."
