Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
Interpretation
Wealthy farmers contribute to the overall economic prosperity of their communities.
Franklin D. Roosevelt emphasizes that when farmers thrive economically, it leads to increased employment opportunities and a flourishing economy for everyone involved in the industry. This interconnectedness highlights the vital role of agriculture in supporting broader economic growth and prosperity in society.
In practice
In a speech about rural development, this quote could highlight the importance of supporting local farmers.
There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.
Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. Believe me, it will be enough.
The most powerful forces in economics are not numbers or facts. They are prejudices and preferences. No amount of evidence will ever change the degree to which many of the rich and powerful prefer themselves to be richer and more powerful and others poorer and weaker.
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off.
If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.
In the Imperialist Era, the foreign loan played an outstanding part as a means for young capitalist countries to acquire independence.
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