FDR

We are giving work to more than three million men and women, unemployed through no fault of their own, on our WPA program.

The scope of voluntary action cannot be limited, because the very desire to help the less fortunate is a basic and spontaneous human urge that knows no boundary lines.

War will be avoided by all honorable means, but should it come, I feel assured that the efficiency and devotion to duty of officers and men of the Navy will more than justify the confidence of our citizens in their first line of defense.

The work of upbuilding the Navy must be steadily continued.

I believe it entirely consistent with our continuing readiness to limit armaments by agreement, that we maintain an efficient Navy adequate in men and material to insure positive protection against any aggressor.

It is not intended by this order to give any publicly-owned lands a national-forest status which have not hitherto had such status, or to remove any publicly-owned lands from a national-forest status.

We must continue their steadfast reliance upon the Providence of God.

I have said and I repeat to this solemn Eucharistic Congress that no greater blessing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion.

I trust that the deliberations will quicken the spiritual life of all who participate and inspire them with new zeal for the work of the Master whom we all serve.

We in this country are upholders of the ideal of democracy in the government of man.

I hereby exempt the said Herman G. A. Brauer from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending September 30, 1939.

It is, therefore, supremely important that negotiations should continue without interruption until a fair and constructive solution is reached.

My appeal was solely that negotiations be continued until a peaceful settlement is found, and that thereby a resort to force be avoided.

I am convinced that hundreds of millions throughout the world would recognize your action as an outstanding historic service to all humanity.

The world asks of us who at this moment are heads of nations the supreme capacity to achieve the destinies of nations without forcing upon them, as a price, the mutilation and death of millions of citizens.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely.

To prepare each citizen to choose wisely and to enable him to choose freely are paramount functions of the schools in a democracy.

Continued negotiations remain the only way by which the immediate problem can be disposed of upon any lasting basis.

I most earnestly appeal to you not to break off negotiations looking to a peaceful, fair, and constructive settlement of the questions at issue.

The fabric of peace on the continent of Europe, if not throughout the rest of the world, is in immediate danger.

I am persuaded that there is no problem so difficult or so pressing for solution that it cannot be justly solved by the resort to reason rather than by the resort to force.

I urge upon all the people of the nation that they cooperate in the movement to emphasize the disastrous consequences of preventable fires.

This reservation shall be known as the Union Slough Migratory Waterfowl Refuge.

Yes, the greatest of them have not been those who have said-'It will not work; it cannot be done; it must be changed'—but rather those who have applied to the Constitution of the United States the spirit of 'full faith and confidence'.

It required great patience between 1783 and 1788 to bring home the realization that thirteen separate colonies, become thirteen separate states, could not survive as thirteen separate nationalities.