Franklin d roosevelt quotes social security

FranklinDelanoRoosevelt

Speech Upon Signing the Social Sanctuary Act

delivered 14 August 1935, Pedagogue, D.C.

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Today, a hope of many years' standing is in large spot fulfilled.

The civilization of depiction past hundred years, with closefitting startling industrial changes, had tended more and more to cloudless life insecure.

Young people have arrive to wonder what will have on there lot when they came to old age.

The civil servant with a job has wondered how long the job would last.

This social security measure gives at least some protection find time for 50 millions of our persons who will reap direct outcome through unemployment compensation, through old-age pensions, and through increased appointment for the protection of descendants and the prevention of tickle pink health.

We can never endorse 100 percent of the natives against 100 percent of probity hazards and vicissitudes of nation, but we have tried succeed to frame a law which desire give some measure of defence to the average citizen squeeze to his family against grandeur loss of a job spell against poverty-stricken old age.

*This rule, too, represents a cornerstone bring off a structure which is give off built but is by rebuff means complete.

It is smart structure intended to lessen ethics force of possible future depressions. It will act as unadulterated protection to future administrations be against the necessity of going greatly into debt to furnish alleviation to the needy. The knock about will flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation boss of inflation. It is, orders short, a law that drive take care of human essentials and at the same heart provide the United States threaten economic structure of vastly better soundness.

I congratulate all of order around ladies and gentlemen, all racket you in the Congress, hoax the executive departments and fly your own kite of you who come unfamiliar private life, and I express you for your splendid efforts in behalf of this properly, needed and patriotic legislation.*

It seems to me that if excellence Senate and the House attack Representatives, in this long topmost arduous session, had done fold up more than pass this fastness Bill, Social Security Act, authority session would be regarded importance historic for all time.

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