Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

New York was the first State in the Union definitely to accept the responsibility of seeing to it that so far as the State's resources could prevent it, none of its citizens who wished to work should starve.

Context

Address at the Dedication of the Federal Building, Buffalo, N.Y.

10/16/1936

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