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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people.


Samuel Gompers

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THE CREE PEOPLE This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
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DON KING Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN One of the myths of housing assistance is that most people aren't working. Most people are working t...
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WALTER WASHINGTON Some people are working to four decimal points, some people are working to three, and some people ar...
CHRIS WOOD I get emotional for working class people and poor (people). He gets emotional for the rich and likes...
BILL GEORGE It's expensive for working people.
ALI HUSSEIN The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the vict...
WALTER ULBRICHT The most notable feature of a disturbance in your city last summer, was the hanging of some working ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of th...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Goal less people are working for goal set people
DR. SHAILESH THAKER The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand w...
RICK PITINO There are people working on legislation, there are people working on public education, there are peo...
DR. JERRY VLASAK The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand w...
RICK PITINO Some People are HARD working and some are HARDLY working...
SIDDHARTH JAIN Many people know they're working, but not what they're working.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
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LISA JENNINGS I've never liked the idea of working for other people.
TED LIGETY I believe by working together and having the right people on the team, nothing is impossible.
KISHAN S CHAUHAN Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.
PHIL GRAMM If you're a friend to the working people of New York, and you're a friend to the labor movement, the...
ANDREW CUOMO 5-hour Energy has always been about helping hard working people, and the Amazing People program take...
MANOJ BHARGAVA I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know fr...
ROSE SCHNEIDERMAN I found that one of the greatest educations you can get comes by working with people, ... You learn ...
FRANK FORD The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
J. B. PRITZKER When the bad people are working, the good cannot work and wherever and whenever the good are working...
APURVA GAGLANI Working people are bearing the brunt of the EPA's inaction,
DENNIS HASTERT Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Fl...
CURT WELDON The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be t...
JOHN BARDEEN We're still working to get in contact with our people.
ALLARD BEUTEL With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, ...
FANNIE LOU HAMER This city is becoming unaffordable for working and middle class people.
FERNANDO FERRER "These days, working hard is for lazy people." - Ronen Gafni, Founder of FreshBiz
RONEN GAFNI And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and ...
WARREN BEATTY I reprimand people, even those working with me, for littering the roads.
AMISHA PATEL It's cool to go places where working people are happy.
NEIL YOUNG Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the s...
BILL AYERS We want to make it clear to the kidnappers that these people were working for the good of the Iraqi ...
ALLAN SLATER My sympathies have always been for working-class people.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE One of the big selling points for the program was that it was targeted to working people - that is, ...
CANDICE KING One of the things we really are trying to stress is the diversity of the labor movement, ... a very ...
JOE HANSEN It's blue collar, hard-working people. It's good people.
CHRIS KERR Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
CLARENCE DARROW Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work
CLARENCE DARROW The people falling through the cracks are the working class.
BARRY MARAM It's a very deliberate attack against the voice of working people.
ART PULASKI Throughout his first term, the governor has won key victories for working people.
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STEVEN MAGEE He is very supportive of people of both parties working together.
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JOHN JAY HOOKER There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people...
RAY BRADBURY I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard.
RACHAEL RAY Plenty of people will be working from home.
JUDY TENZER I liked working with smart people.
KATHERINE JOHNSON 'Hard-working' people need 'honest' government
JOSEPH MUSCAT We just want to have great people working for us.
SERGEY BRIN No case should be discussed [publicly] by people working on the case. Most especially not the prosec...
FREDA BLACK We will offer unbelievable opportunities for people with a culinary background. They'll be working s...
CASSIE FIREMAN I don't think Lula knew about this, but I feel deceived by all the people who were working for him,
LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA This is so wonderful to see all of these people who are working to preserve our history,
HARRY PRICE The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.
ERNST TOLLER But I think it's more fulfilling to be working with people. Lots of colors appear when you're workin...
JEAN STAPLETON I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
RACHAEL LEIGH COOK A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.
ERNIE FLETCHER Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working togethe...
MARIA CANTWELL For me, life is about experiencing many new things and working with good people, working on good pro...
NARGIS FAKHRI I grew up in a modest neighborhood just outside of Los Angeles. It was an industrial community of bl...
HILDA SOLIS I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people. I am n...
LEON CZOLGOSZ We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ...
GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO I keep working hard to show people they're wrong.
ASDRUBAL CABRERA Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issu...
JOHN ROOS Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is n...
CORNEL WEST To me (the building) represented the working class people around 1910.
JEANETTE SURRATT Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America.
BOB CASEY, JR. This is a permanent campaign to connect the aspirations of working people in multiple industries.
GREG TARPINIAN Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.
PATRICE LECONTE I make films about working class people.
TAYLOR HACKFORD I just like working with smart people.
EDWARD NORTON We're working on trying to get meals in here to feed our people.
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APRIL BERTRAM No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of...
KIM JONG IL I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.
LIEV SCHREIBER We have our security people working the building and the police. We're just trying to find out infor...
BARBARA BRANIC Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability...
POLLY TOYNBEE I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.
MARIO DRAGHI The pumping is working well, people are conserving water and we shouldn't run out of water.
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KEVIN LOWERY At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
BILL BRUFORD I've been working with Amish people since 1980.
DICK WARNER Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues.
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ALAN CRANSTON I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
ELIA KAZAN They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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SAMUEL GOMPERS Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which th...
SAMUEL GOMPERS No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.
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SAMUEL GOMPERS You can't do it unless you organize.
SAMUEL GOMPERS When a man puts a pistol to my head and tells me to deliver, there is no arbitration.
SAMUEL GOMPERS I never liked you, and I always will.
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SAMUEL PEPYS Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
SAMUEL PEPYS Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our conditi...
SAMUEL PEPYS Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
SAMUEL PEPYS My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. M...
SAMUEL MORSE What God hath wrought?
SAMUEL MORSE My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. T...
SAMUEL LOVER Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman...
SAMUEL LOVER To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former j...
SAMUEL LOVER How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might,...
SAMUEL LOVER Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
SAMUEL LOVER When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. ...
SAMUEL LOVER Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
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SAMUEL LOVER I'm not a very typical singer.
SAMUEL LARSEN I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
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SAMUEL LARSEN You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
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SAMUEL LARSEN I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with ...
SAMUEL LARSEN I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
SAMUEL LARSEN I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we'...
SAMUEL LARSEN Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.
SAMUEL LARSEN On 'Glee,' the director can be like, 'Hey, your face is looking a little too intense her...
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SAMUEL LARSEN One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're hav...
SAMUEL LARSEN I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
SAMUEL LARSEN I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
SAMUEL LARSEN I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
SAMUEL LARSEN I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
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SAMUEL LARSEN Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
SAMUEL LARSEN There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
SAMUEL LARSEN The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
SAMUEL LARSEN I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV...
SAMUEL LARSEN He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own...
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Love is only one of many passions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of i...
SAMUEL HORSLEY Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discove...
SAMUEL HORSLEY In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
SAMUEL HOPKINS These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for...
SAMUEL HOPKINS Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
SAMUEL HOPKINS My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, ...
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where yo...
SAMUEL FULLER You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. Th...
SAMUEL FULLER Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what y...
SAMUEL FULLER When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of th...
SAMUEL FULLER We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
SAMUEL FULLER Surviving is the only glory in war.
SAMUEL FULLER When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
SAMUEL FOOTE Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
SAMUEL FOOTE He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
SAMUEL FOOTE Death and the dice level all distinctions.
SAMUEL FOOTE Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. S...
SAMUEL DASH I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I migh...
SAMUEL DASH I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.
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SAMUEL DASH While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wan...
SAMUEL DASH I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay...
SAMUEL DASH Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its out...
SAMUEL DASH I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and infor...
SAMUEL DASH When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a di...
SAMUEL DASH We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.
SAMUEL DANIEL The wise are above books.
SAMUEL DANIEL And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
SAMUEL DANIEL Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
SAMUEL DANIEL By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out ...
SAMUEL DANIEL The stars that have most glory have no rest.
SAMUEL DANIEL Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
SAMUEL DANIEL Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace an...
SAMUEL CHASE Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
SAMUEL CHASE By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and den...
SAMUEL CHASE People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio b...
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
SAMUEL BUTLER If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SAMUEL BUTLER The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
SAMUEL BUTLER A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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SAMUEL BECKETT All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beg...
SAMUEL BECKETT No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I alw...
SAMUEL BECKETT Do we mean love, when we say love?
SAMUEL BECKETT Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on...
SAMUEL BECKETT You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
SAMUEL BECKETT If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
SAMUEL BECKETT What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
SAMUEL BECKETT It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to r...
SAMUEL BECKETT I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
SAMUEL BECKETT In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
SAMUEL BECKETT If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
SAMUEL BECKETT I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left co...
SAMUEL BARNETT I guess I've grown to admire Queen Elizabeth II more. I've always struggled with my feelings...
SAMUEL BARNETT In New York, I get people coming up to me because 'The History Boys' was such a hit on Broad...
SAMUEL BARNETT With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you c...
SAMUEL BARNETT I hope it's always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I've been very lucky l...
SAMUEL BARNETT The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly reb...
SAMUEL BARNETT My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career t...
SAMUEL BARNETT I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if ...
SAMUEL BARNETT I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind m...
SAMUEL BARNETT I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I...
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SAMUEL BARNETT I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
SAMUEL BARNETT I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
SAMUEL BARNETT Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the lang...
SAMUEL BARNETT It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it&#...
SAMUEL BARNETT This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determi...
SAMUEL BARNETT I feel like I've gotten more than a lot of people will ever get. I feel very fortunate.
SAMUEL BARNETT Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets ...
SAMUEL BARNETT I've definitely learned that if you want to have power as a woman in Shakespeare's time, and...
SAMUEL BARNETT Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fin...
SAMUEL BARNETT I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery.
SAMUEL BARNETT I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to d...
SAMUEL BARBER I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York R...
SAMUEL BARBER I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a ...
SAMUEL BARBER As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write...
SAMUEL BARBER I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual sto...
SAMUEL BARBER I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the lates...
SAMUEL BARBER There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.
SAMUEL BARBER I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being...
SAMUEL BARBER I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unplea...
SAMUEL BARBER If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
SAMUEL ALITO I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
SAMUEL ALITO Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secul...
SAMUEL ALITO A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation...
SAMUEL ALITO I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.
SAMUEL ALITO I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decisio...
SAMUEL ALITO It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through thei...
SAMUEL ADAMS There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinio...
SAMUEL ADAMS Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a shar...
SAMUEL ADAMS The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ...
SAMUEL ADAMS How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
SAMUEL ADAMS The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peac...
SAMUEL ADAMS It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole teno...
SAMUEL ADAMS We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
SAMUEL ADAMS I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
SAMUEL ADAMS The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
SAMUEL BUTLER That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting win...
SAMUEL LOVER In Australia, getting an audition can be a rarity. There just aren't as many opportunities.
XAVIER SAMUEL My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
XAVIER SAMUEL Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of...
XAVIER SAMUEL I don't know that many Australian actors in Los Angeles, but there are a few of us. I mean, we k...
XAVIER SAMUEL I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it h...
XAVIER SAMUEL There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
SAMUEL BECKETT The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
SAMUEL JOHNSON When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.
SAMUEL LOVER The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
SAMUEL CHASE I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
SAMUEL LARSEN It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of natio...
SAMUEL SMILES Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself...
SAMUEL SMILES The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
SAMUEL SMILES Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
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SAMUEL SMILES Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road...
SAMUEL SMILES Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gi...
SAMUEL SMILES Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing...
SAMUEL SMILES I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
SAMUEL SMILES He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
SAMUEL SMILES Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - th...
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