Occupation: Former United States Secretary Of Labor Birth: April 10, 1880 Death: May 14, 1965
I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen..
Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious man should li….
To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conferen….
But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone trie….
The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible..
It's only when we're relaxed that the thing way down deep in all of us - call it the subconscious mind, the spirit, what you will - has a chance to w….
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 whole by experiment based….
This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the vast majority is for it, is it even more….
Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to keep body and soul tog….
The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair tha….
It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life.... Contentment tends to breed laxity, but a healthy di….
The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life..
You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy..
Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees..
Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist..
In America, public opinion is the leader.