Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
ATTRIBUTION:
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. ed. Samuel I. Rosenman, The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 13 vols., New York (1938-1950). William E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal: 1932-1940, p. 333, Harper & Row (1963).
FDR was responding to critics of the New Deal programs who charged it with waste and failure of some its programs.
