          Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
    With this pledge taken, I assume unhesitatingly the leadership of this great army of our people dedicated to a disciplined attack upon our common problems. 
    Action in this image and action to this end is feasible under the form of government which we have inherited from our ancestors. Our Constitution is so simple and just so practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangements without loss of essential form. That is why our constitutional system has proved itself the most superbly enduring political mechanism the modern world has produced. It has met every stress of vast expansion of territory, of foreign wars, of bitter internal strife, of world relations. 
    And it is to be hoped that the normal balance of executive and legislative authority may be wholly adequate to meet the unprecedented task before us. But it may be that an unprecedented demand and need for an undelayed action may call for temporary departure from that normal balance of public procedure.  
 