"The WPA was one of the most..." - Quote by Ronald Reagan
The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges, and other projects... It gave men and women a chance to make some money along with the satisfaction of knowing they earned it.
More by Ronald Reagan
“One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors.”
“I'm proud of having been one of the first to recognize that states and the federal government have a duty to protect our natural resources from the damaging effects of pollution that can accompany industrial development.”
“Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.”
More on Government Programs
“Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.”
“We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won”
“The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income.”
More on Work
“NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation”
“America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.”
“ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.”