Franklin D. Roosevelt: “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.

If Great Britain goes down, the Axis powers will control the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the high seas.

I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking...

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