... [Washington] is always an entertaining spectacle. Look at it now. The present President has the name of Roosevelt, marked faci...al resemblance to Wilson, and no perceptible aversion, to say the least, to many of the policies of Bryan. The New Deal, which at times seems more like a pack of cards thrown helter skelter, some face up, some face down, and then snatched in a free-for-all by the players, than it does like a regular deal, is going on before our interested, if puzzled eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "Emergency". It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The in...vasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan horse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I simply do not know wha...t to tell my own boys, leaving school and confronting this new world whose ideal is Security and whose practice is dependence upon government instead of upon one's self.... All the old character-values seem simply insane from a practical point of view; the self-reliant, the independent, the courageous man is penalized from every direction ... [ellipses in source]LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are den...ied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient.... W...e have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of course we will continue to work for cheaper electricity in the homes and on the farms of America; for better and cheaper transp...ortation; for low interest rates; for sounder home financing; for better banking; for the regulation of security issues; for reciprocal trade among nations and for the wiping out of slums. And my friends, for all of these we have only begun to fight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Edito...rialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to ta...ke a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. The millions who are in want will not stand idly by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »