FDR

But, unfortunately for the country, when attention is called to, or attack is made on specific misuses of capital, there has been a deliberate purpose on the part of the condemned minority to distort the criticism into an attack on all…

The enumeration of these abuses does not mean that business as a whole is guilty of them.

Again, it is deception that will not long deceive to tell the country that an attack on these abuses is an attack on business.

Generically such problems arise out of the concentration of economic control to the detriment of the body politic--control of other people's money, other people's labor, other people's lives.

In many instances such concentrations cannot be justified on the ground of operating efficiency, but have been created for the sake of securities profits, financial control, the suppression of competition and the ambition for power over…

That such influences operate to control banking and finance is equally true, in spite of the many efforts, through Federal legislation, to take such control out of the hands of a small group.

We have but to talk with hundreds of small bankers throughout the United States to realize that irrespective of local conditions, they are compelled in practice to accept the policies laid down by a small number of the larger banks in the…

The ownership of vast properties or the organization of thousands of workers creates a heavy obligation of public service.

The power should not be sought or sanctioned unless the responsibility is accepted as well.

The man who seeks freedom from such responsibility in the name of individual liberty is either fooling himself or trying to cheat his fellow men.

He wants to eat the fruits of orderly society without paying for them.

For a permanent correction of grave weaknesses in our economic system we have relied on new applications of old democratic processes.

That means that we ask business and finance to recognize that fact, to cure such inequalities as they can cure without legislation but to join their government in the enactment of legislation where the ending of abuses and the steady…

The Nation has no obligation to make America safe either for incompetent business men or for business men who fail to note the trend of the times and continue the use of machinery of economics and practices of finance as outworn as the…

Government can be expected to cooperate in every way with the business of the Nation provided the component parts of business abandon practices which do not belong to this day and age, and adopt price and production policies appropriate to…

Definite strides in collective bargaining have been made and the right of labor to organize has been nationally accepted.

In the case of labor as in the case of capital, misrepresentation of the policy of the government of the United States is deception which will not long deceive.

In every case power and responsibility must go hand in hand.

But no government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Government has a final responsibility for the well-being of its citizenship.

If private cooperative endeavor fails to provide work for willing hands and relief for the unfortunate, those suffering hardship from no fault of their own have a right to call upon the Government for aid; and a government worthy of its…

Not because of the pledges of party programs alone, not because of the clear policies of the past five years, but chiefly because of the need of national unity in ending mistakes of the past and meeting the necessities of today, we must…

All about us rage undeclared wars--military and economic.

All about us grow more deadly armaments--military and economic.

All about us are threats of new aggression military and economic.