"Roosevelt's New Deal was not the best alternative, but it certainly was a better alternative than had been offered to the problems of our times, and it was offered with an elan, a spirit that made things go and which tended to lift up people's hearts. In retrospect, I wouldn't change many of the criticisms I then made. Yet the net result was certainly the salvation of America, and it produced peacefully, after some fashion not calculated by Roosevelt, the Welfare State and almost a revolution."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
New Deal
28 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by New Deal →
Related Quotes
"The defeat of some eighty administration supporters in November of 1938 meant that the Congress that convened on Janu…"
"The only light in the darkness was the administration of Mr. Roosevelt and the New Deal in the United States."
"The New Deal also came to the rescue of mortgaged farmers and city-dwellers by taking steps to prevent foreclosures, …"
"Sometimes I had morning meetings with President Roosevelt to discuss the legislative program. But no matter how often…"
"The resemblances between Adolf Hitler's speech to the newly elected Reichstag on March 21, 1933, and Roosevelt's inau…"
"The Green New Deal is modeled after FDRʼs New Deal, which is always celebrated as progressive action that lifted the …"
"Even today-in blithe disregard to his actual philosophy- Smith is generally regarded as a conservative economist, whe…"
"This is what the "New Deal" means to me, an era of acute social consciousness and realization of mutual responsibilit…"
"Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom promised our nation a new political and economic framework. Franklin Roosevelt's New Dea…"
"The real end of the New Deal period took place in the Congressional election of November, 1938, when some eighty odd …"