Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Quote of the Day (Franklin Roosevelt, on `Government by Organized Money')

“For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up.

“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.

“They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.”--President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address at Madison Square Garden, New York City, October 31, 1936

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