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 discontent keeps us alert to the changing needs of our time.
I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen. - Frances Perkins
I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.
- Frances Perkins
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… - Frances Perkins
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…
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… - Frances Perkins
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…
The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life. - Frances Perkins
The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.
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… - Frances Perkins
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…
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… - Frances Perkins
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 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… - Frances Perkins
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…
Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist. - Frances Perkins
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. - Frances Perkins
You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.
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