I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.

- 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…

- 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

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

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

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

Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.

- 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…

- Frances Perkins

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…

- Frances Perkins