Fiorello H. La Guardia Quotes

Men and women cannot be really free until they have plenty to eat, and time and ability to read and think and talk things over.

… poor people deserve access to food, education, housing, and medical services

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

Real freedom means opportunity and well-being. If it does not mean that, it means nothing.

Our people need affirmative faith and material security more than they need rights and true science.

Clean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

We can never be satisfied until we know our children can grow up in a safe and prosperous America.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

The term 'Xiaokang' is used today to refer to a society where people can receive education, get paid through work, have access to medical services and old-age support, have a shelter and more than enough food and clothing, and lead a well-off life.

The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.

We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We need gender equity. We need freedom from hunger. These are our most fundamental needs as social creatures.

Shouldn't everybody join hands to give the basic minimum - food, education and health - to the entire population?

We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans the tools necessary to pursue the American dream. And then, we must get out of the way.

Happiness may exist under all conditions, given the right kind of people and sufficient economic security for adequate food and shelter.

The end to be achieved [by public welfare] is the quality of men and women.

Every great nation puts people first.

The American home, a steady job, an opportunity for the children to go to school properly nourished is the way to combat communism.

You have to provide 5 things to the people: Income, Housing, Education, Health Care, and Justice.

We must recognize the fact that adequate food is only the first requisite for life. For a decent and humane life, we must also provide an opportunity for good education, remunerative employment, comfortable housing, good clothing, and effective and compassionate medical care.

I've seen that most of us want the same things: to be safe where we live, secure in our finances, and free in our lives.

You judge a society by how it treats its citizens. We must do our best to ensure that every child can live in comfort and security, with the best possible education.

Especially in a rich nation, there is absolutely no reason why everyone couldn't and shouldn't have a life of dignity.

We have a moral concern to feed all of the hungry, wipe out malnutrition, so that every American be housed and every child have access to education.

Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.