Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

After all, that is one of the things that Government is intended to do, to think not in terms of just this year and the next, but, for the good of the people, to think for many long years ahead.

Context

Rear-Platform Remarks at Olathe, Kansas

10/12/1936

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