Roosevelt, Franklin Delano -- Message (1938-04-29) to Congress, On Curbing Monopolies

Dave — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:04:59 +0000

Competition, of course, like all other good things, can be carried to excess. Competition should not extend to fields where it has demonstrably bad social and economic consequences. The exploitation of child labor, the chiseling of workers’ wages, the stretching of workers’ hours, are not necessary, fair or proper methods of competition.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman; US President (1933–45)
Message (1938-04-29) to Congress, On Curbing Monopolies

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano -- Speech (1936-06-27), Acceptance, Renomination for President, Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia

Dave — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:18:04 +0000

The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody’s business. They granted that the government could protect the citizen in his right to vote, but they denied that the government could do anything to protect the citizen in his right to work and his right to live.
Today we stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman; US President (1933–45)
Speech (1936-06-27), Acceptance, Renomination for President, Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano -- Message (1938-04-29) to Congress, On Curbing Monopolies

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano -- Speech (1936-06-27), Acceptance, Renomination for President, Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia