We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system from which we now suffer. We need the courage of the young. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us to that remaking!
Franklin D. RooseveltOur security is not a matter of weapons alone. The arm that wields them must be strong, the eye that guides them clear, the will that directs them indomitable.
Franklin D. RooseveltWe know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.
Franklin D. RooseveltWe know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need. It utilizes the familiar machinery of our Federal-State government to promote the common welfare and the economic stability of the Nation.
Franklin D. Roosevelt