We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we kn…

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come the conviction that in the long run economic morality pays. ✨ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gramercy
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