FDR: “My hope that your sessions will be productive of constructive plans for the improvement of conditions.”

All sections of our population—labor, farmers, businessmen have shared and will share in the benefits which increased trade brings.

We seek peace—enduring peace.

I wish I had the power, just for this evening, to be present at all of these gatherings.

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.