Just don't forget the missing parts of that quote:

A large proportion of these unemployed and their dependents have been forced on the relief rolls. The burden on the Federal Government has grown with great rapidity. We have here a human as well as an economic problem. When humane considerations are concerned, Americans give them precedence. The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America. Work must be found for able-bodied but destitute workers.


You can read that entire SOTU address here
http://www.albany.edu/faculty/gz580/his101/su35fdr.html

After that bit above the speech goes on to propose that those that cant care for themselves be cared for through social agencies, and for those that can work emergency public employment, both of which many consider filthy commie socialism.