At the dedication of Rockefeller Center, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., spoke these lines:
We believe it to be the duty of every citizen to do all within his power to improve the conditions under which men work and live. We believe that that man renders the greatest social service who so cooperates in the organization of industry as to afford the largest number of men the greatest opportunity for self-development, and the enjoyment by every man of benefits commensurate with those which his own work adds to the wealth of civilization.
(Quoted from page 38 of The Last Rivet: The story of Rockefeller Center, a city within a city, as told at the ceremony in which John D. Rockefeller, Jr., drove the last rivet of the last building, November 1, 1939. Columbia University Press, 1940.)
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