Message to Congress : typed drafts unsigned : [Washington, D.C.], 1932 May 4.

Stressing the "imperative need of the nation" for a "definite and conclusive program for balancing the budget. Uncertainty is disastrous. It must be in every sense a national program, Sectional, partisan, group or class considerations can have no place in it. Ours is a government of all the people, created to protect and promote the common good, and when the claims of any group or class are inconsistent with the welfare of all, they must give way. Various groups and sections of the country have brought insistent and delaying pressures to bear for the adoption or rejection of various projects which would yield great economy and revenue. They have not realized that sacrifice by all groups is essential to the salvation of the nation. They have not recognized the gravity of the problems with which we are confronted. They apparently do not know that by their actions they are imposing losses on members of their own groups and sections through stagnation, unemployment, decreased commodity prices, far greater than the sacrifices called for under these suggestions. The government cannot be dictated to by organized minorities. I know that these actions do not reflect the will of the country, and I refuse to believe that the country is unable to reflect its will in legislation."