FDR

Isn't the automobile better than it was twenty years ago?

I believe in work and not in a dole.

There never has been, and there never will be, a Federal tax on farms or homes, as long as I have anything to do about it.

We have made some real strides, but we have not gone far enough yet.

The people of the United States know more about government today than they did four years ago.

What we have been trying to do in the past four years, from the point of view of economics, has had a comparatively simple objective—getting people work and producing buying power for them.

The Government has helped to get the banks back on their feet; we loaned them some money, and it was a good investment.

I happen to be by profession a lawyer.

After all, we are all tied in together economically, and that is the lesson I am preaching.

I want to read to you a few sentences from a very wonderful tribute.

I am primarily concerned about the future of the country; we all are.

The initiative, the management itself, must spring and carry on from the bottom up, rather than from the top down.

Peace cannot be attained in this old world of ours just by getting sentimental about it.

I hope that all of you will be able to learn to swim, because that is about the only exercise I can take.

His spirit will long hover over the City of Dubuque and the State of Iowa.

I am glad to come to Dubuque.

I do hereby exempt James W. Sims from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until March 31, 1937.

I do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing regulation.

This card is a very essential part of this ceremony.

The money to run the Government comes from taxes; and the tax revenue in turn depends for its size on the size of the national income.

Our national income had declined over 50 percent—and, what was worse, it showed no prospect of recuperating by itself.

The truth is that we are doing better than we anticipated in 1933.

I am sure that those in this audience who are devotees of outdoor life... will rejoice to know what has been done during the last three and one-half years to protect and perpetuate our wild life.

I am told by the engineer in charge that here in Grafton there are no people who want work who cannot get work.

The State of West Virginia is rightly proud of its glorious natural scenery, but the State also shows to us what happens when man flies in the face of Nature.