Franklin D. Roosevelt: “I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking...”

When you deposit money in a bank the bank does not put the money into a safe deposit vault. It invests your money in many different forms of credit...

The experience of the past two years has proven beyond doubt that no nation can appease the Nazis.

It is safer to keep your money in a reopened bank than under the mattress.

There is an element in the readjustment of our financial system more important than currency, more important than gold, and that is the confidence of the people.