This Generation Of Americans Has A

The closing lines of Roosevelt's acceptance speech at the 1936 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, delivered to a crowd of 100,000 at Franklin Field on the University of Pennsylvania campus on June 27. FDR argued that the generation living through the Depression faced a historic test as consequential as the American Revolution — a struggle against economic tyranny rather than political tyranny. The phrase became the title of a 1936 campaign brochure and endured as one of the defining formulations of Roosevelt's four-term presidency.