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. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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