The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

Probably no one here knows I coached a football team - a service team - playing against Georgetown. I think it was in the fall of 1924 Lou Little was your coach, and he beat us. But it was a very happy circumstance, because it brought me the friendship of another man, Lou Little, who to this day remains my very warm associate and friend.

No treaty or international agreement can contravene the Constitution.

Like myself, all Americans have a deep concern for the well-being of Iran. With them I have watched closely your courageous efforts, your steadfastness over the past difficult years, and with them I too have hoped that you might achieve the goals you so earnestly desire. The attainment of an oil settlement along the lines which have been announced should be a significant step in the direction of the realization of your aspirations for your people.

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

Pessimism never won any battle.

...the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved.