“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by…”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, web.mit.eduTagged: FDR, The New Deal, The Great Depression, Economy
“For twelve years this Nation was afflicted with hear-nothing, see-nothing, do-nothing Government. The Nation looked to Government but the Government looked away. Nine mocking years with the golden calf and three long years of the scourge! Nine crazy years at the ticker and three long years in the br…”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, web.mit.eduTagged: FDR, The New Deal, The Great Depression, Economy
“They stood with us then because in 1932 they still believed. They stand with us today because in 1936 they know. And with them stand millions of new recruits who have come to know. Their hopes have become our record.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, web.mit.eduTagged: FDR, The New Deal, The Great Depression, Economy
“Here and now I want to make myself clear about those who disparage their fellow citizens on the relief rolls. They say that those on relief are not merely jobless — that they are worthless. Their solution for the relief problem is to end relief — to purge the rolls by starvation. To use the language…”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, web.mit.eduTagged: FDR, The New Deal, The Great Depression, Economy