It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No business which depends for existence on paying *less than living wages* to its workers has any right to continue in this… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia... — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
