No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.
Franklin D. RooseveltOn this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.
Franklin D. RooseveltYou cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.
Franklin D. RooseveltNo business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.
Franklin D. Roosevelt