This Nation's war program is menaced by an alarming increase in preventable fire losses.

Only by this united endeavor can America guard her productive power against fire and eliminate a major hazard that threatens seriously to reduce supplies of war materials, food, clothing, and other essentials required by our fighting men…

Whereas by Executive Order No. 9366 of July 30, 1943, the Secretary of the Interior was designated as agent for the sale and distribution of electric power and energy generated at the Denison Dam Project.

I earnestly request the people of the country to take unusually active measures during that week, and throughout the year, to conserve our human and material resources from destruction by fire.

The loss to this Nation is just as real as if the destruction had been wrought by enemy bombers over America, or by saboteurs.

I hereby except from the classification 'alien enemy' all persons whom the Attorney General, the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, or any District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service shall, after…

The evil characteristic that makes a Nazi a Nazi is his utter inability to understand and therefore to respect the qualities or the rights of his fellow men.

I hope very much that because I have had the privilege of knowing you for a great many years, that he will come over again one of these days—the sooner the better—to visit you.

That is why our enemies are doing their desperate best to misrepresent the purposes and the results of this Quebec Conference.

I wish that I might go with you to the Yukon, and to Alaska.

I would rather believe that we can achieve new and better days.

So I give a toast to the King.

I would rather be a builder than a wrecker, hoping always that the structure of life is growing—not dying.

We did not choose this war—and that 'we' includes each and every one of the United Nations.

I am everlastingly angry only at those who assert vociferously that the four freedoms and the Atlantic Charter are nonsense because they are unattainable.

One always goes to the nearest places last.

I have never been in the Northwest.

Every one of the United Nations believes that only a real and lasting peace can justify the sacrifices we are making.