In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.
Franklin D. RooseveltToo often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.
Franklin D. RooseveltAre you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
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. Roosevelt