FDR said it best

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

For there is nothing mysterious about the foundations of a healthy and strong democracy. The basic things expected by our people of their political and economic systems are simple. They are:

Equality of opportunity for youth and for others.
Jobs for those who can work.
Security for those who need it.
The ending of special privilege for the few.
The preservation of civil liberties for all.

The enjoyment of the fruits of scientific progress in a wider and constantly rising standard of living.

These are the simple, basic things that must never be lost sight of in the turmoil and unbelievable complexity of our modern world. The inner and abiding strength of our economic and political systems is dependent upon the degree to which they fulfil these expectations.

President Franklin Roosevelt's Annual Message to Congress (1941) .... cometh the hour cometh the rhetoric eh ....

[Dave2002]

He also said - continuing

These are the simple, basic things that must never be lost sight of in the turmoil and unbelievable complexity of our modern world. The inner and abiding strength of our economic and political systems is dependent upon the degree to which they fulfill these expectations.

Many subjects connected with our social economy call for immediate improvement.
As examples:

We should bring more citizens under the coverage of old-age pensions and unemployment insurance.

We should widen the opportunities for adequate medical care.

We should plan a better system by which persons deserving or needing gainful employment may obtain it.

I have called for personal sacrifice. I am assured of the willingness of almost all Americans to respond to that call.

A part of the sacrifice means the payment of more money in taxes. In my Budget Message I shall recommend that a greater portion of this great defense program be paid for from taxation than we are paying today. No person should try, or be allowed, to get rich out of this program; and the principle of tax payments in accordance with ability to pay should be constantly before our eyes to guide our legislation.

Sensible and wise words it seems, but there was no free lunch proposed.

[Nick Armstrong]

Or we could just get all old-school about it...

http://may2015.com/datablast/enough-is-enough-a-polish-prince-challenges-nigel-farage-to-a-duel/

Refreshments round at mine afterwards

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

FDR was also pretty good in 1944


The Duellists was on the box t'other night

[ahinton]

Or we could just get all old-school about it...

http://may2015.com/datablast/enough-is-enough-a-polish-prince-challenges-nigel-farage-to-a-duel/

Refreshments round at mine afterwards

D'you reckon that there'll be an "afterwards"?...

(I'm reminded of certain people around these parts who can sometimes be overheard expressing, with ill concealed chagrin, sentiments along the lines of "all these Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Latvians and other eastern Europeans coming over here and taking the jobs of us Poles..."