Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

This action was of course directly contrary to the intent of the provision in the Independence Act cited above.

I have found that the prohibition of the sale of arms and munitions of war in the United States to those countries now engaged in armed conf...

Enforcement of this provision at this time will produce a serious condition among many thousands of families in the Philippine Islands.

No industry would give up the gains we have made in the elimination of child labor and in the establishment of minimum wages and maximum hou...