We think of each other as friends, as peaceful and cooperative neighbors on a spacious and fruitful continent.

Our goal is a vast expansion of agriculture and industry throughout the world, with freer access to the raw materials and markets for all nations, and a wider distribution of the products of the earth's fields and factories among all…

This is the peaceful way, the sensible way, and the fair way to settle problems, whether between two nations that are close neighbors or among many nations widely separated.

For the courtesy of appearing before you, as for other courtesies, I am sure I am largely indebted to my good friend, Prime Minister Mackenzie King.

The record flow of goods and the high standard of living it indicates, on both sides of the border, provide a practical demonstration of the benefits of the democratic way of life and a free economy.

With such friends we face the future unafraid.

Accordingly, pursuant to the said section 11 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as amended, I hereby modify the said proclamation of September 5, 1939

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby find and declare, on the basis of the investigation and report of the United States Tariff Commission, that changed circumstances require the…

This proclamation shall become effective on the fifth day after the date of its signature

Our obligation, as citizens of the strongest nation in the world, is to lead the peoples of the earth toward the goal of lasting peace.

Peace cannot be built on a foundation of human want.

Unpreparedness on the part of his opponents precipitated his decision to march into Poland in 1939.

A healthy citizenry is the most important element in our national strength.

When the peoples of the world shall accept the principle that it is the will of God that there be peace--there will be peace.

Japan struck at Pearl Harbor because she thought the United States was too weak to fight back.

The will for peace without the strength for peace is of no avail.

The only security for the United States, or for any other nation, when the alternative to peace is death and destruction, lies in the abolition of war.

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