FDR

Except perhaps for the Social Security Act, it [the FLSA] is the most far-reaching, far-sighted program for the benefit of workers ever adopted here or in any other country.

Fortunately for business as a whole, and therefore for the Nation, that type of executive is a rarity with whom most business executives most heartily disagree.

Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000.00 a day... tell you that a wage of $11.00 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry.

The Congress has properly reduced taxes on small corporate enterprises.

The Congress has provided a fact-finding Commission to find a path through the jungle of contradictory theories about wise business practices.

No recommendation of an applicant, eligible, or employee in the classified service involving disclosure of his political or religious opinions or affiliations shall be considered or filed by the Civil Service Commission.

The American people will not be deceived by anyone who attempts to suppress individual liberty under the pretense of patriotism.

No person in the executive civil service shall use his official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with an election or affecting the results thereof.

I am still convinced that the American people, since 1932, continue to insist on two requisites of private enterprise.

I should like the National Emergency Council to undertake the preparation of such a statement of the problems and needs of the South.

I am constrained to withhold my approval of the bill, H.R. 10530.

As others decrease their armaments we will gladly join them by reducing those which present world conditions force us to provide for our own protection.

None of the things we have done contemplates aggression.

Executive Order No. 7709-A of September 16, 1937, as modified by Executive Order No. 7776 of December 27, 1937, abolishing the National Emergency Council, is hereby further modified so as to extend the date for the abolishment of the said…

This reservation shall be known as the Back Bay Migratory Waterfowl Refuge.

I hereby authorize and direct John Monroe Johnson, an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, to perform the duties of the Secretary of Commerce during the absence or sickness of the Secretary.

The Nation has heard about Scott's Run, with its very poor conditions of life, and the Nation has heard about Arthurdale with its vastly improved conditions of life.

The outstanding contribution that has been made to American life in the past five years, I would say without hesitation that it is the awakening of the social conscience of America.

I want to tell you, my friends of Arthurdale, that I am proud of what I have seen today and I am proud of all of you, old and young alike, who are helping so greatly to make this community an American success.

I hope that the Congress, when the new Congress comes back next January, will undertake a broader program of improving the Federal tax system as a whole, in the light of accepted principles of fairness in American taxation, and of the…

The Government of the United States has cooperated loyally and actively with the Governments of Bolivia and Paraguay...

All private lands acquired or leased by the United States since the issuance of Executive Order No. 7523 of December 21, 1936, establishing the Hart Mountain Antelope Refuge, within the area described in section 2 of that order are hereby…

It is evident that our main reliance for an adequate supply of phosphate must eventually be placed on our Western deposits.

We have profited by that experience.

A healthy and vigorous flow of trade between nations is an indispensable requirement for general and lasting prosperity.