Harry Truman

Requirements for the payment of poll taxes also interfere with the right to vote.

The Federal Government has a clear duty to see that Constitutional guarantees of individual liberties and of equal protection under the laws are not denied or abridged anywhere in our Union.

We cannot be satisfied until all our people have equal opportunities for jobs, for homes, for education, for health, and for political expression, and until all our people have equal protection under the law.

We believe that all men are created equal and that they have the right to equal justice under law.

We shall not, however, finally achieve the ideals for which this Nation was founded so long as any American suffers discrimination as a result of his race, or religion, or color, or the land of origin of his forefathers.

We know the way. We need only the will.

This will take the strong efforts of each of us individually, and all of us acting together through voluntary organizations and our governments.

We believe that all men have the right to freedom of thought and of expression and the right to worship as they please.

The channels of interstate commerce should be open to all Americans on a basis of complete equality.

We believe that all men are entitled to equal opportunities for jobs, for homes, for good health and for education.

This gap must be closed.

I ask you to give--and give generously-to the March of Dimes.

This ruthless enemy, infantile paralysis, endangers a vital treasure--the health of our children.

I am convinced that we have scarcely scratched the surface and that, as a Nation, we can make rapid progress in the immediate future.

I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid act of July 17, 1946, do find and proclaim that with respect to trade-marks of nationals of Denmark…

Your generosity this year will decide the fate of thousands more.

Our people want good health and are willing to work to achieve it.

Our Department of State has already invited representatives from more than 60 nations to participate in this international conference being sponsored by the National Foundation.

Accordingly the time within which compliance with conditions and formalities prescribed with respect to renewal of registrations under section 12 of the aforesaid act of February 20, 1905, as amended, may take place is hereby extended with…

When cases of infantile paralysis were reported among our occupation troops in Germany last year, your National Foundation went into action immediately.

Denmark accords substantially equal treatment in this respect to trade-mark proprietors who are citizens of the United States.

Upon the basis of the foregoing information, I recommend that the Congress provide for the exercise, at least until October 31, 1948, of the powers, authority, and discretion conferred upon the President by title III of the Second War…

The grain situation can best be summarized by saying that every bushel of grain which can be saved between now and the harvest of the new crops this summer and fall will exert an immediate and direct influence either on grain supplies…

Under these circumstances, definite steps to conserve grain and reduce all nonessential uses of grain in the United States were, and are, required in the national interest.

Upon being informed by the Secretary of Agriculture of the impossibility of effecting a voluntary agreement to conserve grain by the distilling industry, I instructed him to recommend to the Congress the granting of authority to exercise…