At present the Treasury Department is at irregularly recurring intervals obliged, in the interest of the business world--that is, in the interests of the American public--to try to avert financial crises by providing a remedy which should be provided by Congressional action.
Roosevelt criticizes the Treasury Department's reactive measures to financial crises instead of proactive legislative solutions.
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
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