New Deal Quotes
42 quotes by 34 authors
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The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing…
— H. L. Mencken
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Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.
— George Will
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Well, before the New Deal...[The Emancipation Proclamation] would be a good start.
— Ann Coulter
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The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover’s aegis. We all of…
— Rexford Tugwell
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We didn’t admit it at the time, but practically the Whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started.
— Rexford Tugwell
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Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried…
— Andrew Mason
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Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal.
— Ronald Reagan
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I pledge you, pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic…
— H.G. Wells
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If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to…
— Lawrence Lessig
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Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal.
— Henry Ford
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I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All…
— Harvey Pekar
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But if it comes down to next year, I'll be picketing outside of Halas Hall for a new deal, a new contract, because I'm not…
— Brandon Marshall
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Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts a floor beyond…
— Helen Thomas
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There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever…
— Garet Garrett
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The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
— Garet Garrett
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Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "Emergency". It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The invasion of New Deal…
— Herbert Hoover
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This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution's demands for structural flexibility sufficient to adapt substantive laws and institutions to rapidly…
— Stephen Breyer
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As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it's obvious to me that NFL owners understood that they…
— Ron Jaworski
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The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end.
— Richard Allen Epstein
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