In short, prove yourselves worthy of the liberty and dignity which you have preserved on this earth, by helping those less fortunate who have been starved by the dictators for so many long years and who still starve even in liberation.

All mankind now stands in the doorway to destruction--or upon the threshold of the greatest age in history.

The younger generation of today yearns for moral uplift.

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is rounded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only thing that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the…

If the civilized world as we know it today is to survive, the gigantic power which man has acquired through atomic energy must be matched by spiritual strength of greater magnitude.

The United States expects to support that Charter.

To raise that standard should be, and is, the constant aim of your Government and the underlying basis of its policies.

The fight to preserve these rights was hard-won.

If men and nations would but live by the precepts of the ancient prophets and the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount, problems which now seem so difficult would soon disappear.

By virtue of the authority vested in me as the President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Executive Order No. 9613 of September 13, 1945, entitled 'Withdrawing and Reserving for the Use of the United States Lands Containing Radio-active Mineral Substances' is hereby revoked.

The term 'fissionable materials' as used in this order means (a) all deposits from which the substances known as thorium, uranium (including uranium enriched as to one of its isotopes), and elements higher than uranium in the periodic…

Veterans shall accompany their applications with certified copies of their certificates of discharge, or other satisfactory evidence of their military or naval service.

The public lands affected by this order shall be subject to (1) application under the homestead or the desert land laws, or the small-tract act of June 1, 1938...

In order for the Council to carry out the functions assigned to it, it seems to me necessary that the Council should have a picture of the over-all program of financial transactions which it is proposed to carry out in the next period.

On such a basis, we can make decisions in a rational way, strike the best bargains with foreign countries, and save money for the taxpayer.

I APPRECIATE very much your being here today.

I particularly want to thank Mr. Hoover, and the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Commerce, and each one of you individually, for coming here today to help on this program.