"Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt

“Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.”

“Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.”

“To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.”

“Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology.”

“The final and best means of strengthening demand among consumers and business is to reduce the burden on private income and the deterrence to private initiative which are imposed by our present tax system, and this administration pledged itself last summer to an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes to be enacted and become effective in 1963.”

“I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.”

“Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.”

“Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline.”

“Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.”