Famous Quotes | Of course we will continue to...
Of course we will continue to work for cheaper electricity in the homes and on the farms of America; for better and cheaper transportation; for low interest rates; for sounder home financing; for better banking; for the regulation of security issues; for reciprocal trade among nations and for the wiping out of slums. And my friends, for all of these we have only begun to fight.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Attribution: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. FDR Speaks authorized edition of speeches, 1933-1945 (recordings of Franklin Roosevelt’s public addresses), side 3, address at Madison Square Garden, New York (Oct. 31, 1936), ed. Henry Steele Commager, Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt, Washington Records, Inc. (1960). In this campaign speech the President laid out the major programs which the New Deal had introduced or was about to pursue, including TVA, banking legislation, the SEC, railroad regulation, farm and home owners loans, AAA and conservation, Social Security, and the CCC.
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