Harry Truman

His ability, his industry and his untiring devotion to duty were of incalculable benefit to the war effort of the Nation.

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

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…

The younger generation of today yearns for moral uplift.

The United States expects to support that Charter.

They look to us for help--not to fight an enemy, nor help for luxuries and extravagances--but just help to keep themselves alive, help in the form of food and clothing, the barest necessities of life.

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.

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.

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.

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

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…

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

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...

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 international economic cooperation which is the keynote of our economic foreign policy must accompany international political cooperation, and we must achieve both if world peace is to be enduring.

I wish to pay a personal tribute to the three million patriotic men and women who form this year's army of Red Cross fund campaign solicitors.

No change except by agreement, shall be made by the Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company, or their employees in the condition out of which the said disputes arose.

We are in a very serious condition, so far as world food consumption is concerned.

Red Cross workers ease the tedious hours of convalescence by providing entertainment, comfort, and assistance with their personal and family problems.

At an early date the Council undertook to consider proposals and applications for foreign loans, and to study the problems and broad implications of foreign lending.

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.

The statement of the National Advisory Council concerning foreign loans reaches the conclusion that the Export-Import Bank will require during the next fiscal year additional lending authority of $1 1/4 billion.

The war is not over for the Red Cross.