The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.

We shall make the most lasting progress if we recognize that Social Security can furnish only a base upon which each one of our citizens may build his individual security through his own individual efforts.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.