Economic Security Quotes

• True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Jobs, Freedom, People

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Real freedom must include economic security.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, Economic, Security

  "Roosevelt Democrats: Hillary Clinton's vision, defined by Eleanor" by Tom McCarthy, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2015.

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• The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Money, Economic Inequality, History

  Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937

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• Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.

  Steve Israel

  Senior, President, Poverty

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• The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Healthy, Energy

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• We must retool our nation to prepare for the challenge we already face to maintain our position in the global economy. And this much is certain: America will not have national security without economic security.

  John F. Kerry

  America, Challenges, Faces

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• Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce - to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth.

  Stephen Covey

  Jobs, Lying, Thinking

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• The key to economic security - to food security in Africa is empowering the women.

  Judith Rodin

  Keys, Empowering, Economic

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• The Green New Deal is about creating economic security for everyone, and doing it quickly.

  Jill Stein

  Creating, Green, Economic

  Source: www.pqmonthly.com

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• Morally, the promise of an impossible “right” to economic security is an infamous attempt to abrogate the concept of rights. It can and does mean only one thing: a promise to enslave the men who produce, for the benefit of those who don’t.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Rights

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• My parents believed in education and economic security, and I thank them for it. Because I think that's part of what's made my life stable. It was instilled in me. You have to be able to pay your bills. You do not get into debt. And I never have been.

  Helen Mirren

  Thinking, Parent, Debt

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• Because of the internet and communications, the clash of cultures is much more direct. People feel, I think, less certain about their identity, less certain about economic security.

  Barack Obama

  Communication, Thinking, People

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Creating, Dollars, Debt

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• The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Opportunity, Satisfaction In Life, Class

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• In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.

  Tim Bishop

  Islands, Safety, Long

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• If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your economic security, but it will guarantee the descent of the entire nation to a level of miserable poverty--as the practical results of every totalitarian economy, communist or fascist, have demonstrated.

  Ayn Rand

  Government, Giving, Guarantees

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• Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Fighting, Men, Space

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• Every time Washington regulators pass down another heavy-handed rule or levy another hefty fine, Colorado loses potential jobs, revenue, and economic security.

  Bob Beauprez

  Jobs, Colorado, Economic

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• We will never know what anyone is really like, until everyone has economic security and doesn't have to answer to anyone else.

  Jacque Fresco

  Answers, Economic, Security

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• Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

  Henry Louis Gates

  School, Kids, Law

  "Henry Louis Gates Uncovers 'Faces Of America'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. February 17, 2010.

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• And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government can make them safe from all harm, provide fairly distributed economic security, and improve individual moral behavior. If the government is granted a monopoly on the use of force to achieve these goals, history shows that power is always abused. Every single time.

  Ron Paul

  Believe, Government, Moral Behavior

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• In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

  Henri Nouwen

  Identity, Occupation, Way

  "The Essential Henri Nouwen" by Henri Nouwen, (p. 152), 2009.

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• We stand with women by fighting for economic security, protecting access to health care and supporting women's leadership across the country

  Barack Obama

  Country, Independent, Fighting

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• It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.

  R. H. Tawney

  Educational, Ignorance, Opportunity

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• Together, undocumented people like me and our relatives, friends and allies wait for broader immigration reform, not just for Dreamers but also for undocumented workers of all ages and backgrounds who contribute to our economic security and prosperity.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  People, Waiting, Dreamer

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