Recently, Franklin D. Roosevelt was recognized by Atlantic Monthly magazine as the fourth most influential person in the history of the United States, behind George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. To see the most influential Americans, go to www.theatlantic.com.
“They have no vision and where there is no vision, the people perish.”
FDR, in his first inaugural address, was speaking about the American people. In order to undertake any project, it is necessary first to have a reasonable vision of the outcome of that project. Take, for instance, the war in Iraq. If our current [...]
“This year (1937) marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Constitutional Convention which made us a nation. At that Convention our forefathers found the way out of the chaos which followed the Revolutionary War; they created a strong government with powers of united action sufficient then and now to solve problems utterly beyond [...]
“Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at [...]