"Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.“


-Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

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