Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I congratulate all of you ladies and gentlemen, all of you in the Congress, in the executive departments and all of you who come from privat...

Today a hope of many years' standing is in large part fulfilled.

This social security measure gives at least some protection to thirty millions of our citizens.

It is, in short, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly...