The conviction that every person in the Republic owes a service to the Republic; that the Republic rests solely upon the willingness of everyone born into it to bear his part of the duties and obligations of citizenship is as important as the ability to read and write--for that is the only patriotism in peace.
Address Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America.
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No department shall close a station no longer needed by it which is serving other Government departments without first making arrangements in respect to such service that are satisfactory to the departments being served.
No department shall erect a new station in the proximity of an existing government station, unless the same is incapable of rendering to such department the service that it requires.
These policies and measures will hold our hard-won American system of ordered liberty and government.
I have today signed the bill authorizing the transfer of the cases of juvenile delinquents from the Federal system of criminal justice to juvenile courts in their home communities, provided these juvenile courts are willing to accept them.
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