Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

Let me warn you now, as I warned you two years ago in my address at Syracuse, against the type of smooth evasion which says: 'Of course we believe all these things; we believe in social security; we believe in work for the unemployed; we believe in saving homes.'

11/03/1938

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