FDR

We Americans realize how tenuous would be the existence of our party system, our freedom of elections, our freedom of living, if the doctrines of dictatorship were to prevail.

Ours is the responsibility of defending these principles which have come to us as our national heritage.

All the public lands within the following-described areas be, and they are hereby, withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws

The dictators cannot seem to realize that here in America our people can maintain two parties, and at the same time maintain an inviolate and indivisible Nation.

Our well-considered philosophy for the attainment of peace comes not from weakness but—everlastingly—from the courage of America.

Yes, you recapture your philosophy, but in so doing you do not sit down mentally and become a fatalist.

All of the great freedoms which form the basis of our American democracy are part and parcel of that concept of free elections.

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the act of June 25, 1910, c. 421, 36 Stat. 847, the Executive order of December 12, 1917, creating Power Site Reserve No. 659, is hereby revoked as to the following-described lands:

It is ordered that the Executive Order of December 12, 1917, creating Power Site Reserve No. 659, be, and it is hereby, modified

These bases are for American defense against attack and their construction is consistent with such defense.

I hereby suspend compliance with the provisions of the said sections during the continuance of the national emergency proclaimed to exist by Proclamation No. 2352 dated September 8, 1939.

At no time shall any vessel or other craft, other than public vessels of the United States, be navigated into Kodiak Island Naval Defensive Sea Area, unless authorized by the Secretary of the Navy.

It is hereby ordered that Watson B. Miller may be appointed to the position of Assistant Administrator of the Federal Security Agency.

It is hereby declared to be the duty of employers and employees engaged in production or transportation of materials essential to national defense to exert every possible effort to settle all their disputes without any interruption in…

They accept it for themselves because, in the past few years, they have come to understand that the inheritance is theirs and that, like other inheritors of other things of great value, they have a duty toward it.

The true collectors are the collectors who understand this.

Today they are not only works of art.

I think it signifies a relation—a new relation here made visible in paint and in stone—between the whole people of this country, and the old inherited tradition of the arts.

I accept for the people of the United States and on their behalf this National Gallery and the collections it contains.

No alterations may be made in export licenses which have been issued by the Administrator of Export Control except by the Administrator.

We believe firmly that when our production output is in full swing, the democracies of the world will be able to prove that dictatorships cannot win.

The Administrator of Export Control shall, under my direction, determine the forms of the articles and materials.

We, the American people, are writing new history today.

The light of democracy must be kept burning.

Let me make it clear that the Nation is calling for the sacrifice of some privileges, not for the sacrifice of fundamental rights.