It's a long-range thing.
Charity begins at home.
The arming of our ships is a matter of immediate necessity and extreme urgency.
We must face the truth that the Neutrality Act requires a complete reconsideration in the light of known facts.
It is time for this country to stop playing into Hitler's hands, and to unshackle our own.
The pattern of the future—the future as Hitler seeks to shape it- is now as clear and as ominous as the headlines of today's newspapers.
I am confident that ways will be found to provide the material and supplies necessary to fight Hitler on all fronts, including your own.
I want particularly to take this occasion to express my great confidence that your armies will ultimately prevail over Hitler.
I hereby exempt the said Rutherford H. Baker from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending November 30, 1942.
it is ordered that the following-described lands, transferred from the Secretary of Agriculture to the Secretary of the Interior by Executiv...
We propose that these ships sail the seas as they are intended to.
There must be liberty, world-wide and eternal.
Commerce on the high seas and freedom of the seas has been a major reason for our prosperity.
I hereby authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, under such conditions as he may prescribe, to permit the entry into the United States of b...
The shipworkers of America are doing a great job.
therefore, by virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 9 of the act of August 29, 1916, 39 Stat. 547
Oh, absolutely and clearly.
But the ships have got to move.
