Franklin Delano Roosevelt/governor of New York 1929%e2%80%931932

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    “People who are hungry and out of job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “Three years ago, also, when the Sims tragedy was acted, I said to myself, There is such an officer, if not such a man, as the Governor of Massachusetts,—what has he been about the last fortnight? Has he had as much as he could do to keep on the fence during this moral earthquake?... He could at least have resigned himself into fame.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “New York is more now than the sum of its people and buildings. It makes sense only as a mechanical intelligence, a transporter system for the daily absorbing and nightly redeploying of the human multitudes whose services it requires.”
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