Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher taxes. Indeed in these days, when every available dollar should go to the war effort, I do not think that any American citizen should have a net income in excess of $25,000 per year after payment of taxes.

The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace.

It took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed--and we face other delays during the present session because most of the Members of the Congress are thinking in terms of next Autumn's election. However, that is one of the prices that we who live in democracies have to pay. It is, however, worth paying, if all of us can avoid the type of government under which the unfortunate population of Germany and Russia must exist.

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.