“The
doctrine of regulation and legislation by ‘master minds,’ in whose judgment and
will all the people may gladly and quietly acquiesce, has been too glaringly
apparent at Washington…Were it possible to find ‘master minds’ so unselfish, so
willing to decide unhesitatingly against their own personal interests or
private prejudices, men almost godlike in their ability to hold the scales of
justice with an even hand, such a government might be to the interests of the
country; but there are none such on our political horizon, and we cannot expect
a complete reversal of all the teachings of history.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
in 1930, when he was still governor of New York.
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