Nor are liberal ideals alone sufficient: Ours is a practical people, to whom ideals furnish the theory of political action, upon which they want not only firm assurance, but also effective practice. They want programmes, but they want action to flow from them. They want constructive common sense. They want the development of the common will, not the views of a single individual. They are beginning to realize that words without action are the assassins of idealism. On the other side, they are equally disgusted with seeking for power by destructive criticism, demagoguery, specious promises and sham.

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I have... instituted systematic, voluntary measures of cooperation with the business institutions and with State and municipal authorities to make certain that…

The American people are doing their job today. They should be given a chance to show whether they wish to preserve the principles of individual and local respo…

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