Wednesday, September 5, 2012

On Signing the Social Security Act of 1935


We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~


Design for the original card courtesy Social Security Administration.

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