It is of the highest importance that employer and employee alike should endeavor to appreciate each the viewpoint of the other and the sure disaster that will come upon both in the long run if either grows to take as habitual an attitude of sour hostility and distrust toward the other.
Roosevelt stresses the importance of understanding and cooperation between employers and employees to avoid conflict.
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I want every labor man, every labor leader, every organized union man, to take the lead in denouncing crime or violence.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
I absolutely agree with you that this matter is not one to be decided with any reference to the personal preferences or interests of any man, but purely from the standpoint of the interests of the people as a whole.
The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride, he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own.
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