For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.
Franklin D. Roosevelt[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.
Franklin D. RooseveltI never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.
Franklin D. Roosevelt