By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 1 of the act of July 9, 1918, c. 143, 40 Stat. 845, 848, it is ordered that all the public land within the following-described area be, and it is hereby, withdrawn from all forms of…
FDR
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1933, until his death on April 12, 1945. A member of the Democratic Party, he was born in New York and is best known for his leadership during two of the most significant crises in American history: the Great Depression and World War II. Roosevelt implemented the New Deal, a series of programs and reforms aimed at economic recovery and social welfare, which fundamentally reshaped the role of the federal government in American life.
We Americans want peace and we shall prepare for a peace, but not for a peace whose definition is slavery or death.
It is better to have protection and not need it than to need protection and not have it.
I hereby prescribe the following regulations governing the employment of unclassified laborers in the executive civil service of the United States.
Ours is a great country—great in perpetual devotion to the cause of liberty and justice.
It is becoming increasingly clear that peace by fear has no higher or more enduring quality than peace by the sword.
Tonight, for the second time, I take up the public duty—the far from disagreeable duty—of answering major campaign falsifications with facts.
I now brand as false the statement being made by Republican campaign orators, day after day and night after night, that the rearming of America is slow.
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one.
I shall never be loath to call the attention of the nation to deliberate or unwitting falsifications of fact.
We have recognized that to the right to vote, the right to learn, the right to speak, the right to worship, we, your Government, add the right to work.
I am sure that this year the people, not only of Delaware but of the United States, are all taking a renewed interest in that word 'liberty.'
These same Republican leaders are all for the new progressive measures now; they believe in them.
It is for peace that I have labored; and it is for peace that I shall labor all the days of my life.
I hereby prescribe Volume Four of regulations governing the administration of said Act.
I hereby approve the establishment of the aforesaid Board and the designation of the said Administrator.
I shall not have the time or the inclination to engage in any purely political debate.
Yes, there is a possibility that the speech will be shifted over to Baltimore.
I have just anticipated, perhaps, certain statements that might afterwards come out.
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, I hereby prescribe Volume Six of regulations governing the administration of said Act.
I shall never be loath to call the attention of the nation to deliberate or unwitting falsifications of fact.
I do hereby declare and proclaim that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and imposts within the United States are suspended and discontinued so far as respects the vessels of Peru and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise…





