If 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. RooseveltWe must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.
Franklin D. RooseveltIn the field of world policy; I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.
Franklin D. RooseveltBut while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Franklin D. RooseveltDemocracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
Franklin D. RooseveltIt took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed--and we face other delays during the present session because most of the Members of the Congress are thinking in terms of next Autumn's election.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. Roosevelt