Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

The Congress acted upon that recommendation and today we have the Social Security Act in effect throughout the length and breadth of our country.

Transmittal to Congress of a Report of the Social Security Board

01/15/1939

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I think you all realize that what we have been trying to do for agriculture in the past three years has been aimed at greater security for t...

Yes, the people are not being swayed this year by some of the things that have swayed them in the past.

We have been trying to build up a great many things all through the country that needed to be built up.

I use this word 'security' not in the narrower sense of old-age pensions and of unemployment insurance, fine as these objectives are.