Quotes with trade-union

Quotes 61 till 80 of 177.

  • Thomas Carlyle It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Jefferson It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Barbara Castle It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Barack Obama It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Joseph Brodsky It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Barack Obama It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Ben Nelson Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Dean William R. Inge Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Luxury
    Employ'd a Million of the Poor,
    And odious Pride a Million more;
    Envy it self, and Vanity,
    Were Ministers of Industry;
    Their darling Folly, Fickleness,
    In Diet, Furniture and Dress,
    That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made
    The very Wheel that turn'd the Trade.
    Source: The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 180, p. 10
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Karl Kraus Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • John Ruskin Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • John Ruskin Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Men have become the tools of their trade.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Campbell Brown More and more parents and voters have rejected the teachers' union antiquated, top down, one-size-fits-all approach to education and continue to elect candidates who embrace reform that celebrates students and empowers parents.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Ari Fleischer Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens.
    Ari Fleischer
    American media consultant and political aide (1960 - )
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  • Albrecht Durer My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Beau Bridges My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Claiborne Pell My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.
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  • William Faulkner My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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