War

It must be made very clear that the war effort is being impeded.

The American people should be informed of each step in their war effort.

The war effort must come first and everything else must wait.

We have machinery—now that is terribly important—fairly new machinery—we have been at war ninety days, and yet this present Labor Board was set up around January some time.

Recreation under present conditions can be undertaken solely for the purpose of building up body and mind and with the chief thought that this will help win the war.

This is a consolidation for swifter and more efficient prosecution of the war.

This order shall remain in force during the continuance of the present war and for six months after termination thereof.

We reject the turtle policy and will continue increasingly the policy of carrying the war to the enemy in distant lands and distant waters.

We share equally and with equal zeal the anguish and the awful sacrifices of war.

Plans and programs to win the war and to win the peace must grow out of our common national purpose and with democratic participation in planning by all of us.

It is no act of war on our part when we decide to protect the seas that are vital to American defense.

We must make headway against the mutual fear and friction arising out of war armament which kill human confidence throughout the world.

In time of war or public emergency these restrictions shall not apply to vehicles or equipment operated by authority of the Government of the United States

Worldwide depressions and their result in unemployment are like great wars.

We are still fighting this war of independence.

We do not condemn our own action or belittle the high motives and ideals which based our efforts when we acknowledge that the war was a catastrophe.

There is not a scintilla of truth in the suggestion that we are engaged in any negotiations to set up any commitment as to conference on peace or war or upon the freedom of the seas.

In advising upon the divisions into which administrative work should be assigned, it is said that Alexander Hamilton proposed the creation of six departments--State, Treasury, War, Justice, Post Office, and Trade.