"No country, however rich, can afford the..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt

“Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.”

“We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.”

“We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”

“I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.”

“When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.”

“A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.”

“An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.”

“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”

“I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.”