FDR

I believe that the American people will say: 'Forward!'

We cannot accept the doctrine that war must be forever a part of man's destiny.

This Nation which has become the industrial leader of the world has the humanity to know that the people of a free land need not suffer the disease of poverty.

For the past seven years I have had the high honor and the grave responsibility of leadership of the American people.

There were the factory workers forced to labor long hours at low wages in sweat-shop conditions.

There is something very ominous in this combination that has been forming within the Republican Party.

Executive Order No. 5886 of July 12, 1932, withdrawing public lands in Wyoming pending a resurvey, is hereby revoked as to the following-described township.

We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality.

I do not think that some of the men, even some of the leaders, who have been drawn into this unholy alliance realize what a threat that sort of an alliance may bring to the future of democracy in this country.

We had seen social unrest at home and abroad—the frustrated hopes of common men and women.

Our program in the past, our program for the future, is, as you know, equality of economic opportunity.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

It is a strange campaign.

Nowhere in the world except in the Americas is it possible for any nation to devote a great sector of its effort to life conservation rather than to life destruction.

I hereby exempt the said Andrew McClellan from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending November 30, 1941.

The National Institute of Health speaks the universal language of humanitarianism.

I hereby exempt the said Hervey G. Mooney from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending October 31, 1941.

These buildings, which we dedicate, represent new and improved housing for an institution that has a long and distinguished background of accomplishment in this task of research.

I say to you that we are going full speed ahead!

Those side-line critics are now saying that we are not doing enough for our national defense.

The productive capacity of the United States which has made it the greatest industrial country in the world, is not failing now.

Democracy is alive—and going strong.

The purpose of our defense is defense.

Our objective is to keep any potential attacker as far from our continental shores as we possibly can.

Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.