Hoover and Roosevelt’s Speeches Compared and Contrasted

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Hoover’s speech and Roosevelt’s Inaugural Address, Hoover fights for a decentralized government where the government does not play a major role in controlling both economic and social factors of the United States.
“When the Federal Government undertakes to go into commercial business...it immediately finds itself in a labyrinth, every alley of which leads to the destruction of self-government” (Hoover).
Hoover, explains that during the first World War, the government taking over business and social factors was needed and became a very potent and effective temporary war-time mean. However, the government taking over both economic and social structures would cause the government to self-destruct. Roosevelt, however, disagreed. Roosevelt believed that the government should take over economic and social means; creating a centralized government, to help the people of the country.
“...direct recruiting by the government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of ...

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