New Deal – Quotes

The New Deals enmity

The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental. Garet Garrett

The New Deal was

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice. Garet Garrett

There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did. Garet Garrett

There’s nothing sexier than

There’s nothing sexier than a girl who’s like, ‘I know who FDR is, I know about the New Deal, I’m going to give you a new deal.’ And then, over a period of years, she structures her sex acts in such a way that they save the economy. Eugene Mirman

power is not a

power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, … Read more

First of all, let

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. Franklin D. Roosevelt

I pledge you, pledge

I pledge you, pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and of courage. This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms. Give me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win … Read more

The New Deals enmity

There was endless controversy

There’s nothing sexier than

power is not a

First of all, let

I pledge you, pledge

We had to struggle

I pledge you, I

We know now that