FDR

Fear is vanishing and confidence is growing on every side.

No reasonable person wants to abandon our present gains—we must continue to protect children, to enforce minimum wages, to prevent excessive hours.

Americans as a whole are feeling a lot better—a lot more cheerful than for many, many years.

The answer to this demand was the Federal Reserve System.

It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a Democracy cannot be honest and efficient.

The job of creating a program for the Nation's welfare is, in some respects, like the building of a ship.

This is a great national crusade to destroy enforced idleness which is an enemy of the human spirit generated by this depression.

We also mark for posterity our pride in his faith in American democracy, his confidence in the power of our legal institutions to realize, when rightly used, the highest American ideals.

For him law was an instrument of just relations between man and man.

Mr. Justice Holmes was fond of saying that we live by symbols.

Our generation will not soon forget, as the learned the world over will long remember, his extraordinary achievements as judge, as historian, and as philosopher of the law.

I therefore commend to the Congress that the bequest of Mr. Justice Holmes be not covered into the general fund of the Treasury.

Clearly he thereby sought, with a generous emphasis, to mark the full measure of his faith in those principles of freedom and justice which the country was founded to preserve.

I hereby appoint Frank C. Walker as Executive Director of the National Emergency Council.

The principles therein embodied served as the highway, broad and safe, over which poured the westward march of our civilization.

On this plan was the United States built; on the plan of this Ordinance we have, State by State, filled in the geographic frame of our domain; and from it we have had no occasion to depart.

I trust that this forthcoming anniversary will be seized as the opportune occasion to instil in American minds and hearts the cherished appreciation of the rank and honor that is the rightful due of the 'Great Ordinance.'

I welcome constructive criticism of us in Government.

Together, continue the battle against depression until there is a real national recovery on all fronts.

I ask the continued cooperation of the press.

This Treaty possesses a spiritual significance far deeper than the text of the instrument itself.

Every American should have the deepest appreciation of the brilliant and gallant services of General Pulaski in the Revolutionary War.

It is most appropriate that on this day, designated as Pan-American Day by the Chief Executives of all the Republics of the American Continent, the Governments, members of the Pan-American Union, should sign a treaty which marks a step…

His devotion to duty ended only when he fell in action in the service of the Republic; he is one of our heroes of that time and of all time.

Let us also bring renewed allegiance to those high principles of international cooperation and helpfulness which, I feel assured, will be a great contribution to civilization by the Americas.