Politics

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Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the government.

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We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.

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The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old-age pensions, government relief for the destitute and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life. The captains of industry did not lead this transformation; they resisted it until they were overcome. When in the thirties the wave of union organization crested over the nation, it carried to secure shores not only itself but the whole society.

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I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

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From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

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As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

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Knowing is what counts. To know one's country and govern it with that knowledge is the only way to free it from tyranny.

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We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

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Great changes may be made in a government, yet the form continue; but large intervals of time must pass between every such innovation, enough to make it of a piece with the constitution.