I have been obliged to balance one set of disadvantages against another and to venture a judgment as to which were the more serious for the country.
I hope that they are considerations which will appeal to the thoughtful judgment of the House and in the long run to the thoughtful judgment...
The immediate and pressing need of the country is production, increased and increasing production, in all lines of industry.
These are the considerations which have led me to withhold my signature from this repeal.
Our national life has no doubt been less radically disturbed and disarranged than the national life of other peoples.
Opinion and concerted action on the part of purchasers can probably do the rest.
By way of immediate relief, surplus stocks of both food and clothing in the hands of the Government will be sold.
Public action will no doubt cause many who have perhaps unwittingly adopted illegal methods to abandon them.
They constitute a burden upon us which is the more unbearable because we know that it is wilfully imposed by those who have the power.
We are dealing, gentlemen of the Congress, I need hardly say, with, very critical and very difficult matters.
Where there is no peace of mind there can be no energy in endeavor.