Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
Date of birth: 1890-04-13
Date of death: 1949-07-19
Quotes number: 8
Nationality: American
Profession: Politician
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.