"The democratic principle on which this nation was founded should not be restricted to the political process but should be applied to the industrial operation as well."
— Albert Gallatin

January 1, 1970

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Anti-war activistsDiplomats of the United StatesUnited States Secretaries of the TreasuryUnited States Ambassadors to Great Britain and the United KingdomUnited States Ambassadors to France
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Statement (c. 1797), cited in Profit Sharing Trends (Chicago: Council of Profit Sharing Industries, March–April 1959), pp. 3, 24–25: see Elizabeth Lanham, Administration of Wages and Salaries (New York: Harper & Row, 1963), p. 345, and Milton Derber, The American Idea of Industrial Democracy, 1865–1965 (Urbana: Illinois UP, 1970), introduction, p. 6