• Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt: Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub