necessitous

Back in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt, in his inaugural address, pointed out that "a necessitous man is not a free man."

As memories of subsistence struggles recede, people who are no longer necessitous are indeed free — free to use politics for unpleasant self-expression.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, indulging in progressive utopianism, insisted that “necessitous men are not free.”

A few years later, Roosevelt put it this way in his 1944 State of the Union address: "We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. 'Necessitous men are not free men.' People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."

Largely because of the horrors of the Republican Great Depression, Americans realized that, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said in his 1944 State of the Union address, "Necessitous men are not free men."