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Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

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“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, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden(October 31, 1936)
Tagged: FDR, The New Deal, The Great Depression, Economy
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fear Of Love Sayings and Quotes
Tagged: Fear Of Love, Relationships
“This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address
Tagged: Presidential Inaugural, Presidential Speech, Franklin Roosevelt
“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By 'business' I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level — I mean the wages of decent living.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt's Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act
Tagged: Income Inequality, Minimum Wage, Economy, FDR, Great Depression, The New Deal
“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 organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me--and I welcome their hatred!”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden(October 31, 1936)
Tagged: FDR, The New Deal, The Great Depression, Economy
“On this idea, the first part of the Act proposes to our industry a great spontaneous cooperation to put millions of men back in their regular jobs this summer. The idea is simply for employers to hire more men to do the existing work by reducing the work-hours of each man's week and at the same time paying a living wage for the shorter week.

No employer and no group of less than all employers in a single trade could do this alone and continue to live in business competition. But if all employers in each trade now band themselves faithfully in these modern guilds--without exception-and agree to act together and at once, none will be hurt and millions of workers, so long deprived of the right to earn their bread in the sweat of their labor, can raise their heads again. The challenge of this law is whether we can sink selfish interest and present a solid front against a common peril.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt's Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act
Tagged: Income Inequality, Minimum Wage, Economy, FDR, Great Depression, The New Deal
“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 of the stock broker, our needy unemployed would be cared for when, as, and if some fairy godmother should happen on the scene.

You and I will continue to refuse to accept that estimate of our unemployed fellow Americans. Your Government is still on the same side of the street with the Good Samaritan and not with those who pass by on the other side.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden(October 31, 1936)
Tagged: FDR, The New Deal, The Great Depression, Economy
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