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

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

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

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

“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