There Are Many Ways Of Going

From Roosevelt's address to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on June 27, 1936, accepting his renomination for the presidency. He used the speech to frame the New Deal's opposition not as political rivals but as "economic royalists" — concentrated financial power that threatened democratic government. The aphorism about standing still versus moving forward captured the progressive case that inaction was itself a form of failure. Roosevelt won the subsequent election by the largest electoral college margin in American history to that point, carrying 46 of 48 states.