Occupation: Former United States Secretary Of Labor Birth: April 10, 1880 Death: May 14, 1965
In America, public opinion is the leader.
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….
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….
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….
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….
The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible..
Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist..
You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy..
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….
Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees..
The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life..
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….
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….
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….
To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conferen….