Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"Our national income had declined over 50 percent—and, what was worse, it showed no prospect of recuperating by itself."

"The State of West Virginia is rightly proud of its glorious natural scenery, but the State also shows to us what happens when man flies in the face of Nature."

"An opportunity for all of our people to obtain the education that will best fit them for their life work and their responsibilities as citizens is the ideal of American education."

"I hope and believe that, with the cooperation of those interested, we shall be able to work out a constructive plan that will extend to the Southeast and other great regions of our country the benefit..."