Our concept of Federal, State, and local responsibilities is possible of no unchangeable definitions and it must shift with the moving forces in the Nation.

Carried to its logical extreme, all this shouldering of individual and community responsibility upon the Government can lead but to the superstate where every man becomes the servant of the State and real liberty is lost.

No stronger statement has ever been made than that of Lincoln upon obedience to law as the very foundation of our Republic.

Lincoln led in founding the Republican Party and he gloried in his party.

The declaration made by the delegates of the United States is designed as a safeguard against any possible misconstruction of the position of the United States that its participation in a multilateral convention with the regime now…

It is hereby ordered, under authority contained in the act of June 21, 1906 (34 Stat. 325-326), that the trust period on allotments made to members of the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians of Kansas, which trust period expires during the…

I transmit herewith a certified copy of those instruments, signed on July 5, 1930, by the respective plenipotentiaries of the United States of America and of 29 other governments participating in the international load-line conference…

I feel it is just that I should take this occasion to make known two men who have had a large part in development of these ideas and their ultimate consummation--Mr. Edward Eyre Hunt of the Department of Commerce, and Mr. Otto Mallory, of…

The act gives wider authority and specific organization for the methods which have been pursued by the administration during the past 14 months in respect to the planning and acceleration of Federal construction work for purposes of relief…

I shall place the organization set up under the act, under the Secretary of Commerce.

It is not a cure for business depression but will afford better organization for relief in future depressions.