The freest Government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of p...
Does that look to you like the end of private enterprise?
New England has traditionally been a land of moderate-sized independent business, a land of economic democracy.
We tried to rebuild that machine, to modernize it and to turn on the purchasing power.
We seek not the prosperity of 1929 but the kind which will mean to every American family an assurance of safety of the home.
It was the biggest peacetime job ever attempted.
It is a bad sign for those who believe that the American people can be swept off their feet by rabble-rousers this year.
I have said that what the present national Administration has tried to do was to adjust statecraft to reality.
I am glad that Governor Greene spoke of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations as the cradle of religious liberty.
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay.
I have found a Nation more greatly prosperous, more definitely on the highway to complete recovery than at any time in the past seven years.
New England is heir to the lasting fruits of another great New England tradition—the tradition of being a part in the economic development o...
I am opposed to the kind of regimentation under which you labored and suffered in the days of the false prosperity and in the days of the gr...
The seeds of fear cannot bear fruit in the polling booth.
The average American as I have met him on these voyages is no longer indifferent to the problems of Government.
Recovery is with us.
There would have been no second chance if we had failed once.
Three and a half years ago we declared war on the depression.