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Quotes from Message to Congress on establishing minimum wages and maximum hours — Franklin D. Roosevelt

1882–1945

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A self-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.

Message to Congress on establishing minimum wages and maximum hours (1937)

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