
They hope that our desire to see our soldiers and sailors home again and the temptation to return to the comforts and profits of peace will force us to settle for some compromise short of unconditional surrender.
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They hope that our desire to see our soldiers and sailors home again and the temptation to return to the comforts and profits of peace will force us to settle for some compromise short of unconditional surrender.

It will be good business for the Government, because every dollar we spend in collection and enforcement will produce $20 or more in revenue.

The reasons which moved him are the same as those which now prompt this action by me.

Dear Steve: I am very loath to see June first come around because, as you state in your very kind letter of the twenty-eighth, it means that you are definitely leaving your official post at the White House.

My best wishes go with you in your new venture and in anything you undertake.

You have given me the benefit not only of your long experience in the White House, but of your innate wisdom and sound judgment; and I am sure that, without you, my task would have been much more difficult.

You know that it is no mere politeness for me to say that I hate to see you go.

I know from the lips of President Roosevelt how much you meant to him, and how much he relied upon you.

Let us observe this Flag Day by raising our Flag and beside it the flags of the United Nations.

We must provide maximum security to those who have given so fully of themselves on the fighting and production fronts.

It is our custom each year to set aside a day on which to render special honor to our Flag.

Our Flag will be planted in the heart of the empire of our last remaining enemy.

I urge the people of the United States on that day to fly the American Flag from their homes.

We celebrate Flag Day this year with a fresh sense of our strength as a nation.

The Government has thus incurred a moral obligation to these workers and to those who have stuck faithfully to their posts in the past.

Adequate unemployment insurance is an indispensable form of prosperity insurance.

The transition from war to peace is part and parcel of the war and we cannot shirk our obligation to those temporarily unemployed through no fault of their own.

Decent unemployment benefits would serve as a bulwark against postwar deflation.