I pledge you, pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and of courage. This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms. Give me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people.
Franklin D. RooseveltWe are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
Franklin D. RooseveltIt was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.
Franklin D. RooseveltWe cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.
Franklin D. Roosevelt