Harry Hopkins quotes

Harry Hopkins was an influential American politician and one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s closest advisors during the New Deal and World War II. As a key architect of major relief programs, his work strongly shaped American social policy and wartime strategy. He played a vital role in coordinating Lend-Lease aid to Allied nations and fostering international alliances. Here are 3 of his quotes:

They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it!

Harry Hopkins

Communities now find themselves in possession of improvements [resulting from the WPA] which even in 1929 they would have thought themselves presumptuous to dream of... [but] everywhere there had been an overhauling of the word presumptuous. We are beginning to wonder if it is not presumptuous to take for granted that some people should have much, and some should have nothing; that some people are less important than others and should die earlier; that the children of the comfortable should be taller and fatter, as a matter of right, than the other children of the poor.

Harry Hopkins