Chance Quote by Frances Perkins

Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and…

— Frances Perkins

Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to keep body…

— Frances Perkins

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference…

— Frances Perkins

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan…

— Frances Perkins

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a…

— Frances Perkins

“There was a stricken conscience of public guilt and we all felt that we had been wrong, that something was wrong with that building…

— Frances Perkins

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

— Frances Perkins

The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.

— Frances Perkins

The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for…

— Frances Perkins

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other…

— Frances Perkins

You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.

— Frances Perkins

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

— Frances Perkins