FDR

I wish I could personally talk to each one of you about our country's pressing need for a stronger defense.

It shall be the duty of the Committee to advise the President with respect to the matters hereinafter set forth.

The Federal Power Commission and the Corps of Engineers, United States Army, are authorized, empowered, and directed.

Democracy is your cause—the cause of youth.

It is for that cause that America arms itself.

I would tell you that the task before us today is as compelling as any that ever confronted our people.

The courage and the faith and the vision of the Genoese navigator glorify and enrich the drama of the early movement of European people to America.

I do hereby amend Executive Order No. 8389 of April 10, 1940, as amended.

I call upon the Governor of Puerto Rico to provide suitable and sufficient places of registration and to provide suitable and necessary registration boards to effect such registration.

The first registration under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 for Puerto Rico shall take place in Puerto Rico on Wednesday, the twentieth day of November, 1940, between the hours of 7:00 A.M. and 9:00 P.M.

Temporary clerks, carriers, and laborers required for part-time or intermittent work in the Postal Service in connection with the holiday or seasonal business from November 15, 1940, to January 15, 1941.

I hereby further exempt the said James L. Hughes from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending November 30, 1941.

It is an irony of our day that three-quarters of a century after the adoption of the Amendment forever outlawing slavery under the American Flag, liberty should be under violent attack.

Let us all, as Americans, unite in a solemn determination to defend and maintain and transmit to those who shall follow us the rich heritage of freedom which is ours today.

It is a symbol of all that has been achieved by Negroes in the past three-quarters of a century—achievements that have enriched and enlarged and ennobled our American life.

How marvelous has been the advancement of your race, 'Up from Slavery,' to quote the title of a book which won universal admiration when the great Booker T. Washington gave it to the world nearly forty years ago.

Tyranny hates and fears nothing more than the free exchange of ideas.

True democratic Government cannot long endure in the midst of widespread ignorance.

The American Government...decided to reject that philosophy of inaction and irresponsibility and indifference to the destitution of its citizens.

I am very proud to take part in these symbols of new America, built on the old America.

Education is over and beyond party politics.

They will get not all of the story part of the time, or only part of the story all of the time - they will get all of the story all of the time.

Every child have the right to a free and liberal education.

You have the privilege of improving your education in institutions which have the best of modern equipment and high standards of instruction and curriculum.

In building for the well-being of America, I think we have built for the defense of America as well.