"Our national concern for the handicapped and the infirm is one of our national characteristics."
"We are a Nation of free people, and free people know how to go over the top- whether it's a Nazi wall, a Japanese island fortress, a production goal, a bond drive, or a stream of silver dimes."
"I am heartily in favor of the objectives of S. 293 and I hope that the Congress will see fit to act favorably on those objectives."
"Every American who has played a part in the job of growing, conserving, harvesting, distributing, and processing our food supply has done a magnificent job."
"I call upon the millions of victory gardeners who have done so much to swell the Nation's food supply in these war years to continue their good work."
"It is essential for every man and woman to do everything to help in the huge task of getting the food produced and seeing that it is conserved and shared."
"I ask every American to share our available food by observing the rules of rationing and by cooperating with food merchants in the observance of food price ceilings."
"The Boards are dealing now with serious shortages in such commodities as tires and trucks, coal, textiles, footwear, animal protein foods, and fats and oils."
"The power to act and make decisions in the economic sphere on behalf of our respective Nations will remain in the duly constituted national agencies."
"The Combined Food Board has proved to be a most useful mechanism for assuring an efficient and reasonably equitable distribution of vital food resources among the various United Nations."
"The Boards have set a model for economic cooperation between the United Nations in overcoming excessive nationalism and in gaining cooperation between former rivals both on the national and internatio..."
"We hear a good bit about differences between the United States and Britain, but perhaps we hear less of how really effectively they are working together in winning the war."