Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
808
AUTHOR:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945)
QUOTATION:
Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.
ATTRIBUTION:
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, governor of New York, radio speech discussing the national Democratic platform, July 30, 1932.—The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1928–1932, p. 663 (1938).
