Great power involves great responsibility

Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops, and go right straight back to the old principle that every farmer is a lord of his own farm and can do anything he wants, raise anything, any old time, in any quantity, and sell any time he wants?

I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation