Social Economic Council

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    “Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up—or else all go down—as one people.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “Daughter to that good Earl, once President
    Of England’s Council and her Treasury,
    Who lived in both, unstain’d with gold or fee,
    And left them both, more in himself content.

    Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
    Broke him, as that dishonest victory
    At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
    Kill’d with report that old man eloquent;—”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)