FDR

Education should be run by the states and their subdivisions and not by the Federal Government.

I don't believe any family or man can live on fifty cents a day.

Federal officers and employees are hereby further amended so as to permit employees of the Division of Grazing, Department of the Interior, ... to accept appointments as deputy fire wardens and deputy fish and game wardens.

I hereby further exempt the said Edward M. Weeks from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending August 31, 1939.

We fervently hope for the day when the other leading nations of the world will realize that their present course must inevitably lead to disaster.

We don't want and we are not going to copy other forms of government—ours is good enough for us.

We are learning a lot; we know more about all these problems today than we did ten years or twenty years ago.

This shows what you can do in the Panhandle if you put your minds to it.

It is in that spirit that, in the consideration of every new problem, our first question is this: 'What makes for the greatest good of the greatest number?'

I personally am not greatly disturbed by these stories because I have an old-fashioned idea that the voters of Kentucky... are going to vote their own personal convictions on Primary Day.

The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.

I have no hesitation in saying certain things in the presence of Alben Barkley.

Yes, tears were in our eyes that day.

It is ordered that the following-described public land, comprising 5.60 acres, more or less, in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, be, and it is hereby, withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry, and reserved and set apart for the use of…

The South presents right now the nation's No. 1 economic problem-the nation's problem, not merely the South's.

Recognizing that the practice of striking special coins in commemoration of historical events and of permitting the sponsoring organization to sell them at a profit was a misuse of our coinage system.

The best brains in the poor communities will either have no chance to develop or will migrate to those places where their ability will stand a better chance.

These modern days... closer personal contacts are an essential to the well-being of nations of the world.

We must confine ourselves to the greater need.

It is a policy which can never be merely unilateral.

These coins do not have a wide circulation as a medium of exchange, and, because of the multiplicity of designs arising from the issuance of such coins, they jeopardize the integrity of our coins and cause confusion.

It is a continuing policy and there are two perfectly definite schools of thought.

Now, this addition will take care of a large part of that additional number of able-bodied citizens who can work.

I am confident that to generations yet unborn in Sweden and in the United States it will typify close association and continued good will between our two nations.

Except perhaps for the Social Security Act, it is the most far-reaching and most far-sighted program for the benefit of workers ever adopted here or in any other country.