How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?
Franklin D. RooseveltWe have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come the conviction that in the long run economic morality pays.
Franklin D. RooseveltProsperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
Franklin D. RooseveltDealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.
Franklin D. RooseveltWe have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
Franklin D. RooseveltIf the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for a year or two, it can usually borrow temporarily at reasonable rates. But if, like a spendthrift, it throws discretion to the winds, and is willing to make no sacrifice at all in spending; if it extends its taxing to the limit of the peoples power to pay and continues to pile up deficits, then it is on the road to bankruptcy.
Franklin D. Roosevelt