FDR

The kind of dollar which a generation hence will have the same purchasing and debt-paying power as the dollar value we hope to attain in the near future.

Stabilization of the value of the dollar will be attained not merely by monetary means and devices—though these are necessary—but much more by the achievement of balanced and orderly recovery throughout the whole economy.

Those provisions... amount to an unconstitutional invasion of the province of the executive.

The Commission... is specifically given complete administrative authority for the expenditure of public funds.

I have concluded that the sum of $5,000,000... is excessive.

I haven't thought about it at all.

I have always encouraged, and am entirely in favor of, absolute freedom for all news writers.

I do not have a copy of the other one; but I suppose we have it somewhere.

I have not checked the figures, except to say that they have reported and that we expect to make the economies.

It is ordered that Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, be, and it is hereby, abolished as a customs port of entry

It is all off the record; all strictly in the family and nothing else.

The thing that impressed me on this whole trip is that the people, as a whole, understand what it is all about.

Stabilization connotes to most people price-fixing.

The objective is to increase the carry-over of wheat this time; but, if that carry-over is going to be too high again this year or next year, the objective will be to cut down that carry-over of wheat.

I don't give a continental damn whether I catch a fish or not.

You have to go a long ways off so as to see things in their true perspective.

Little waters also are of critical importance.

Big waters are not the only part of our water resources presenting problems and requiring constructive treatment.

I do hereby proclaim that a state of civil strife unhappily exists in Spain.

I do hereby admonish all citizens of the United States, or any of its possessions, and all persons residing or being within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, or its possessions, to abstain from every violation of the…

I have been saying that since 1927.

It depends on whose baby gets the measles.

Obviously there will be something done.

I think that question ought to be resolved first before we can all agree on the bill.

I do hereby exempt James Robertson from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until June 1, 1938.