Fiorello H. La Guardia Quotes

#1. An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.

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#2. The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.

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#3. I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.

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#4. Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the wealth of this country, seeking to put a barrier on science and research for the paltry sum of $39,113 out of an appropriation of $100,000,000?

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#5. God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

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#6. We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.

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#7. The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.

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#8. Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

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#9. My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.

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#10. Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

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#11. Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.

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#12. It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.

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#13. You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

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#14. When I make a mistake, it's a beauty!

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