Monday, September 08, 2008

Democracy Depends Upon Full Employment

"Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men" -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Hide Poverty from Others, Idleness from Self

"To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself" -- Samuel Johnson

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