"The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit."
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933
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