(from the first draft of President Obama's address to the nation, following September 6, 2010 Senate passage of $150 billion jobs bill earlier passed by the House, and asking the public to pressure their elected officials to support, as he does, immediate passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, as part of further steps to come to address continued unacceptable levels of joblessness and other distress caused by the still sluggish economy):

"...the methods of normal times had to be replaced in the emergency by measures that were suited for the serious and pressing requirements of the moment...

...Wise and prudent men--intelligent conservatives--have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time...Reform if you would preserve...I am that kind of conservative because I am that kind of liberal... 

...If all our people have work and fair wages and fair profits, they can buy the products of their neighbors and business is good...

...no country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources.  Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagence.  Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order...we must make it a national principle that we will not tolerate a large army of the unemployed, that we will arrange our national economy to end our present unemployment as soon as we can...

...Labor Day in this country has never been a class holiday.  It has always been a national holiday...We refuse to regard those who work with hand or brain as different from or inferior to those who live from their own property.  We insist that labor is entitled to as much respect as property.  But our workers with hand and brain deserve more than respect for their labor.  They deserve practical protection in the opportunity to use their labor at a return adequate to support them at a decent...standard of living, and to accumulate a margin of security against the inevitable vicissitudes of life...those who would try to refuse the worker any effective power to bargain collectively, to earn a decent livelihood and to acquire security...threaten this country with that class dissension which in other countries has led to dictatorship...

...The Fourth of July commemorates our political freedom...a freedom without which economic freedom is meaningless indeed.  Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom reality...

...Sometimes I get bored sitting in Washington hearing certain people talk and talk about all that Government ought not to do--people who got all they wanted from Government back in the days when the financial institutions..were being bailed out...bailed out by the Government.

...right now I am most greatly concerned in increasing the pay of the lowest-paid labor, those who are our most numerous consuming group but who today do not make enough to maintain a decent standard of living...

...(unemployment is a problem) in which every individual and every economic group has a direct interest

...The inherent right to work is one of the elemental privileges of a free people...Continued failure to achieve that right, that privilege, by anyone who wants to work and needs work is a challenge to our civilization and our security...we approach this problem of reemployment with the real hope of finding a better answer than we have now...

...It was this Administration which saved the system of private profit and free enterprise after it had been dragged to the brink of ruin by these same leaders who now try to scare you...Some of these people really forget how sick they were.  But I know how sick they were.  I have their fever charts. I know how the knees of our rugged individualists were trembling...and how their hearts fluttered.  They came to Washington in great numbers.  Washington did not look like a dangerous bureaucracy to them then.  Oh, no!  It looked like an emergency hospital.  All of the distinguished patients wanted two things--a quick hypodermic to end the pain and a course of treatment to cure the disease.  They wanted them in a hurry; we gave them both.  And now most of the patients seem to be doing very nicely.  Some of them are even well enough to throw their crutches at the doctor.

...I know that many of you have lost your jobs or have seen your friends or members of your families lose their jobs, and I do not propose that the Government shall pretend not to see these things...I conceive the first duty of Government is to protect the economic welfare of all the people in all sections and in all groups.

...from our earliest days we have had a tradition of substantial Government help to our system of private enterprise...(It is therefore) following tradition as well as necessity, if Government strives to put idle men to work, to increase our public wealth and to build up the health and strength of the people..to help our system of private enterprise to function again...

...History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments but out of weak and helpless governments. If by democratic methods people get a government strong enough to protect them from fear and starvation, their democracy succeed, but if they do not, they grow impatient.  Therefore, the only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.

...I never foget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.  I try always to remember that their deepest problems are human...I try not to forget that what really counts at the bottom of it all, is that the men and women willing to work can have a decent job,---a decent job to take care of themselves and their homes and their children adequately..."

(end excerpts--please see my first comment in the thread)