It’s a strange thing. This is only thirty-five years ago — Roosevelt, Wallace. We have a new generation in business today. Successful. It’s surprisin… - Studs Terkel

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It’s a strange thing. This is only thirty-five years ago — Roosevelt, Wallace. We have a new generation in business today. Successful. It’s surprising how quickly they forget the assistance their fathers got from the Government. The Farm Bureau, which I helped organize in this state, didn’t help us in ’35. They take the same position today: we don’t need the Government. I’m just as sure as I’m sitting here, we can’t do it ourselves. Individuals have too many different interests. Who baled out the land banks when they were busted in the Thirties? It was the Federal

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Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) was an American author, historian and broadcaster.

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You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power
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said everything had changed since the atom was split,
except the way we think. We have to think anew.

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