Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.

On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia.

Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.

There comes a time in the affairs of men when they must prepare to defend not their homes alone but the tenets of faith and humanity on which their churches, their governments and their very foundations are set. The defense of religion, of democracy and of good faith among nations is all the same fight. To save one, we must now make up our minds to save all.

The fundamental idea...is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us.

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

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.