Is the United States going to decide, are the people of this country going to decide that their Federal Government shall in the future have no right under any implied power or any court-approved power to enter into a solution of a national economic problem, but that that national economic problem must be decided only by the States?... We thought we were solving it, and now it has been thrown right straight in our faces. We have been relegated to the horse-and-buggy definition of interstate commerce.
Franklin D. RooseveltWhile things on the surface seem more quiet than at any time since last summer, I do not like the maintenance of what amounts to almost full mobilization in aggressor countries. Surely they cannot afford it and if they had any definite policy of trying to work out economic salvation (except by arms) they would be showing some signs of cutting military expenditures.
Franklin D. RooseveltAll free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.
Franklin D. RooseveltEconomic diseases are highly communicable. It follows therefore that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to all its neighbors, near or distant.
Franklin D. RooseveltMy own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.
Franklin D. Roosevelt