In a period of gross inflation they would be the worst sufferers.
FDR
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1933, until his death on April 12, 1945. A member of the Democratic Party, he was born in New York and is best known for his leadership during two of the most significant crises in American history: the Great Depression and World War II. Roosevelt implemented the New Deal, a series of programs and reforms aimed at economic recovery and social welfare, which fundamentally reshaped the role of the federal government in American life.
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That attitude on the part of anyone--Government or management or labor--can lengthen this war.
We are going forward on a long, rough road--and, in all journeys, the last miles are the hardest.
The Burma campaigns have involved incredible hardship, and have demanded exceptional fortitude and determination.
We cannot and will not shrink from the political responsibilities which follow in the wake of battle.
The aroused conscience of humanity will not permit failure in this supreme endeavor.
When you destroy these things you will find it difficult to establish confidence of any sort in the future.
I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.
Turn to the Bill of Rights of the Constitution, which I have solemnly sworn to maintain and under which your freedom rests secure.
The days of the seeking of mere party advantage through the misuse of public power are drawing to a close.
We have the right to expect that this driving power will be given patriotically and whole-heartedly to our nation.
The simple fact is that many million more people have private work today than two years ago today or one year ago today, and every day that passes offers more chances to work for those who want to work.
Our attack upon these enemies must be without stint and without discrimination.
Labor Day in this country has never been a class holiday.
The Fourth of July commemorates our political freedom--a freedom which without economic freedom is meaningless indeed.
The workers were not fooled by that propaganda then.
But we have not yet done all that must be done to make this prosperity stable.
Therefore, the only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.
For to reach a port, we must sail--sail, not lie at anchor, sail, not drift.
Its recent decisions are eloquent testimony of a willingness to collaborate with the two other branches of government to make democracy work.
Do not believe of necessity everything you hear or read.
This nation will remain a neutral nation, but I cannot ask that every American remain neutral in thought as well.
Even a neutral has a right to take account of facts.
I ask this in the name of our common humanity.
They have lost the illusion that we are remote and isolated and, therefore, secure against the dangers from which no other land is free.
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