Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

New England has traditionally been a land of moderate-sized independent business, a land of economic democracy.

I carry to you the same message I have given in the West and in the South: you are a vital and necessary part of a united whole.

I have found a Nation more greatly prosperous, more definitely on the highway to complete recovery than at any time in the past seven years.

I am glad that Governor Greene spoke of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations as the cradle of religious liberty.