FDR: “We in the United States do not seek to impose on any other people either our way of life or our internal form of…”

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

That such study should be conducted by a specially appointed commission charged with the duty of examining into the experience which industry and labor have thus far had with these plans, and of reporting the facts for the benefit of the…

We are absolutely un changed in our policy of two years ago, for immediate Filipino independence.

I do know it will come, and I do know that tonight there are over seven and a half million Americans overseas or fighting afloat in this great war.