
In order to control wages and prices, it would be necessary to embark on a road from which it is very hard to escape without major damage to the freedom of all.
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In order to control wages and prices, it would be necessary to embark on a road from which it is very hard to escape without major damage to the freedom of all.

In enlarging Washington we diminish America.

As more disadvantaged Americans are being trained for jobs, the question on many a workingman's mind is this: 'Is that my job he's being trained to take over?'

The family on a fixed income today was sold out by an administration that did not have the courage to stop inflation.

Labor is a movement, a progressive force, and now more than ever we need that movement and that progress.

The average weekly pay buys less than it did three years ago.

The new leadership we offer will provide the best job protection.

The unemployed man today is the workingman's burden.

Economic growth is the answer to job security.

In the next Administration hard bargaining will be the order of the day; the Federal government will step in only when the failure of that process endangers the health or safety of our nation.

In terms of real income the average workingman has two dollars less in his envelope now than he did in the first year of this administration.

That's not prosperity — that's treadmill economics.

Tonight, I would like to discuss with you the future of the workingman in America.

The old leadership is thinking of treating the symptoms of inflation by bringing to bear the most harmful tool in the economist's kit: Wage and Price Controls.

But if the new generation is no longer prisoner of the old isms, neither is it sold on the American idea.

Vietnam has been a profoundly sobering lesson in the limits of U.S. power.

Peace today requires strength of will, strength of arms, and strength of purpose.

Peace is everybody's business, and the pursuit of peace is everybody's responsibility.