"In America, public opinion is the leader" — Frances Perkins

"In America, public opinion is the leader"

— Frances Perkins

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15 Quotes by Frances Perkins

Frances Perkins has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just…
You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a…
It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has…
The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction…
Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either…
Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.
Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening…
I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.
Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when…
This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right?…
The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind…

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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just… — Paul Auster
What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And… — Billie Joe Armstrong
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear… — Desi Arnaz
When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he… — Bashar al-Assad
Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and… — Bashar al-Assad
There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful… — Chinua Achebe
God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon

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