FDR

We will turn our hearts and our minds to the exacting task of building a just and enduring peace on earth.

Churches and religious institutions will, to the extent that it is within our power, be spared the devastations of war during the struggle ahead.

We are convinced that this will occur only when the forces of evil which now hold vast areas of Europe and Asia enslaved have been utterly destroyed.

Our soldiers have come to rid Italy of Fascism and all its unhappy symbols.

This order shall become effective on July 1, 1943.

The Commission shall have authority to determine the regulations and procedures governing the recruitment and examination of applicants for attorney positions.

I hereby suspend, from and including the respective effective dates of said acts, compliance with the provisions of the said sections during the continuance of any of the wars in which the United States is now engaged.

All functions, powers, and duties of the Public Works Administration are hereby transferred to the office of the Federal Works Administrator.

I cannot sit back and fail to advocate other measures such as limited consumers' subsidies which I am convinced can help to prevent the cost of living from getting completely out of hand.

I can not do this for the reason that I do not believe such subsidies will be effective in controlling inflation unless they are accompanied here, as they are in England, by current tax and savings programs that drain of excess buying…

Effective teamwork is absolutely necessary.

The pay envelope of tens of millions of our citizens will not compensate them for great increases in their food bills.

I know of no better method of coordinating the work of the Food Administrator and the Price Administrator.

We have got to get the coal out.

It is clearly the will of the American people that for the duration of the war all labor disputes be settled by orderly procedures established by law.

The question is: Are we going to try to keep prices down, or are we going into an inflationary spiral?

Now if Congress wants to do it, 100 percent of the responsibility is going to be on the Congress.

I am unalterably opposed to strikes in wartime.

American labor as well as American business gave their 'no-strike, no-lockout' pledge after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Everyone now on the pay-roll savings plan should materially increase the amount of bonds he is buying.

This order shall take effect as of August 5, 1942.

27,000,000 patriotic Americans are regularly investing more than $420,000,000 a month to help pay the cost of the war.

I do not hesitate to say that the pay-roll savings plan is the greatest single factor we now have in protecting ourselves against inflationary spending.

I hereby prescribe the following regulations governing the furnishing of clothing in kind, or payment of cash allowances in lieu thereof.

I heartily endorse your present drive to improve that record.