We hold this truth to be self-evident, that the test of a representative government is its ability to promote the safety and happiness of the people.

We hold this truth to be self-evident, that 12 years of Republican leadership [under Harding, Coolidge, and hoover] left our Nation sorely stricken in body mind and spirit and that three years of Democratic leadership have put it back on the road to restored health and prosperity.

We hold this truth to be self-evident, that 12 years of Republican surrender to the dictatorship of a privileged few have been supplanted by a Democratic leadership which has returned the people themselves to the places of authority, and has revived in them new faith and restored the hope which they had almost lost.

We hold this truth to be self-evident, that this three-year recovery in all the basic values of life and the reestablishment of the American way of living has been brought about by humanizing the policies of the Federal Government [under Roosevelt's New Deal] as they affect the personal financial industrial and agricultural well-being of the American people.

We hold this truth to be self-evident, that government in a modern civilization has certain inescapable obligations to its citizens, among which are:

(1) Protection of the family and the home.

(2) Establishment of a democracy of opportunity for all the people.

(3) Aid to those overtaken by disaster.