Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion
SAMUEL GOMPERSThe man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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Let social busybodies and professional “public morals experts” in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.
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You can’t weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I’ll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers.
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
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