FDR

We must adopt simple wartime standards.

The time has come when all of us—farmers, workers, managers, and investors—must realize that we cannot improve our living standards in a period of total war.

We can all have enough if we do not try to get too much.

There is hereby established the Good Conduct Medal, which shall include suitable appurtenances.

I think I ought to make it clear that these conversations are exploratory.

We are about 95 percent together.

I don't like to reduce things to signed documents.

You can do a lot by gentlemen's agreements.

The Procurement Division of the Treasury Department is hereby authorized and directed to make available, from the stocks acquired by it pursuant to the said act of June 7, 1939, upon such terms of sale and delivery to the buyers and users…

Executive Order No. 8955 of December 1, 1941, extending the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, to certain positions in the War Department and in the Navy Department and establishing a salary differential therefor, is hereby revoked.

The banking system is so constituted because of these assets that it seems ready to meet any war demands that may be made.

I have had it for about a week.

Hope springs eternal.

Two years ago the question was—where would the Axis strike next?

The enemy will receive its answers on battlefields of our own choosing.

The Office of War Information will plan, develop, and execute all phases of the Federal program of radio, press, publication, and related foreign propaganda activities involving the dissemination of information.

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States...

it is ordered that the designation of Gastonia, North Carolina, as a customs port of entry in Customs Collection District Number 15 (North Carolina), be, and it is hereby, revoked, effective this date.

I hereby direct the Secretary of the Navy to relinquish possession of the said plants of Triumph Explosives, Incorporated, located at Elkton, Maryland.

I hereby designate and authorize the Honorable Martin Travieso, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, to perform and discharge the duties of Judge of the District Court of the United States for Puerto Rico and to sign all…

Would that all of us could live our lives and direct our thoughts and control our tongues as did the Father of our Country.

The Red Army not only defeated the enemy but launched the great offensive which is still moving forward along the whole front from the Baltic to the Black Sea.

I think there's a little line in the Bible that says, 'Thou hast said it.'

I think you had better ask Mr. [Robert] Doughton [Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee].

As a taxpayer, I am deeply interested.