FDR: “government by organized money is just as dangerous as government organized by the mob”

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden (October 31, 1936)

On the eve of his 1936 re-election, Franklin D Roosevelt told the American people they were fighting “business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, war profiteering … We now know that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government organized by the mob.”