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.'

Context

Radio Address on the Election of Liberals

11/03/1938

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...

More Franklin Roosevelt Quotes

There is not. I think you will find among the papers three diaries that started on the first of January in three different years, far apart.
12/9/1938
It is my desire that they be kept as a whole and intact in their original condition, available to scholars of the future in one definite loc...
12/9/1938
I realize that the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the New York State Library, Harvard University and the New York State Histori...
12/9/1938
In an age so dependent upon transportation and power, serious consequences will follow failure to anticipate future requirements.
12/8/1938

View All Franklin Roosevelt Quotes