Franklin D. Roosevelt

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.