09/01/1940
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"Mr. Justice Holmes was fond of saying that we live by symbols."
"We also mark for posterity our pride in his faith in American democracy, his confidence in the power of our legal institutions to realize, when rightly used, the highest American ideals."
"I hereby appoint Frank C. Walker as Executive Director of the National Emergency Council."
"On this plan was the United States built; on the plan of this Ordinance we have, State by State, filled in the geographic frame of our domain; and from it we have had no occasion to depart."