“Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry.” FDR, June 1938

Consumer Fraud-- “Markets are not free when they deceive. People are not free when they are deceived.”

“A self-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead… no economic reason for chiseling workers’ wages or stretching workers’ hours.” FDR, May 1937

“Honesty in advertising and sales isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s the law.”

“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.” FDR, January 1937