We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. “Necessitous men are not free men.” People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Naturally, the US wanted nothing to do with sentiment like that.
I'm also fond of Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights wherein he quotes a ruling from British law:
Naturally, the US wanted nothing to do with sentiment like that.
So true.