FDR

You cannot get a sufficiently trained force of all kinds at the front, in the Navy yards and the arsenals, transportation, supply system, and munitions output, you cannot get it by just passing an Act of Congress when war breaks out.

I am damned if I do, and I am damned if I do not.

The lessons of this war do show very clearly that defense necessarily means total defense.

It is ordered that the Executive Order of September 5, 1914, creating Power Site Reserve No. 454, be, and it is hereby, modified

It is ordered that the Executive order of December 12, 1917, creating Power Site Reserve No. 661, be, and it is hereby, modified to the extent necessary to permit Lane County, State of Oregon, to construct a highway over the NW¼NE¼, sec…

We are going to see a lot more before we get through.

That shows that a fairly high percentage of WPA labor is efficient.

It would depend entirely on when it came and who it was.

I am delighted to come back to Norfolk after a great many years.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 1 of the act of June 25, 1910, c. 421, 36 Stat. 847, it is ordered that the following-described tract of land on Ediz Hook Spit, Port Angeles Harbor, Washington, which tract constitutes…

It is ordered that the Executive Order of March 28, 1924, creating Reservoir Site Reserve No. 16, be, and it is hereby, modified to the extent necessary to enable the Federal Power Commission to issue permits, and licenses and amendments…

The Civil Service Commission is hereby authorized to confer a competitive classified civil service status.

I hereby exempt the said William E. Yates from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending July 31, 1941.

The tract of land described in section 1 of this order is hereby temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry

It is to be hoped that before another year world trade can be reestablished.

I call the attention of Congress to the fact that by helping our neighbors· we shall be helping ourselves.

Unless exporting countries are able to assist their nationals, they will be forced to bargain as best they can.

No sensible person would advocate an attempt to prevent the normal exchange of commodities between other continents and the Americas.

All American Republics in some degree make a practice of selling, and should sell, surplus products to other parts of the world.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 55(a) of the Internal Revenue Code (53 Stat. 29).

The real decision to be made in these circumstances is not the acceptance of a nomination, but rather an ultimate willingness to serve if chosen by the electorate of the United States.

It is neither just nor efficient to permit that task to fall upon any one section or any one group.

It is very late; but I have felt that you would rather that I speak to you now than wait until tomorrow.

I cannot forget that in carrying out this program I have drafted into the service of the nation many men and women.

It is our credo-unshakable to the end—that we must live under the liberties that were first heralded by Magna Carta and placed into glorious operation through the Declaration of Independence.