FDR

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.

Taxes are the price we pay for civilized society.

Our war, too—this war we are now finishing- had to be won.

Your pay envelope may be loaded with suggestions of fear, and your dividend letter may be filled with propaganda.

It was the biggest peacetime job ever attempted.

I am opposed to the kind of regimentation under which you labored and suffered in the days of the false prosperity and in the days of the great depression.

We believe that people are even more important than machines.

It is a bad sign for those who believe that the American people can be swept off their feet by rabble-rousers this year.

Recovery is with us.

We seek not the prosperity of 1929 but the kind which will mean to every American family an assurance of safety of the home.

Prosperity measured in dollars is coming back.

Does that look to you like the end of private enterprise?

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

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay.

New England is heir to the lasting fruits of another great New England tradition—the tradition of being a part in the economic development of the entire Union, and of sharing in all of its prosperity.

We tried to rebuild that machine, to modernize it and to turn on the purchasing power.

Three and a half years ago we declared war on the depression.

The freest Government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless.

There would have been no second chance if we had failed once.

The average American as I have met him on these voyages is no longer indifferent to the problems of Government.

The seeds of fear cannot bear fruit in the polling booth.

It is a splendid thing, and I am very happy that this undefended border of ours has become internationally famous.

We are also thinking about the kind of projects that will be useful as recreation to us and to our children.

May we grow not only in material wealth but also in the good citizenship for which we all strive.