It took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed--and we face other delays during the present session because most of the Members of the Congress are thinking in terms of next Autumn's election. However, that is one of the prices that we who live in democracies have to pay. It is, however, worth paying, if all of us can avoid the type of government under which the unfortunate population of Germany and Russia must exist.
Franklin D. RooseveltFor 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. RooseveltWe have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
Franklin D. Roosevelt