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Leon Jouhaux

"Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers."

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"Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers."

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Donna Grant

"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

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"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

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Donna Grant

"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

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Donna Grant

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

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"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

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Donna Grant

"There shall be no end to the government of God."

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Donna Grant

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

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Donna Grant

"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."

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"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."

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Leon Jouhaux
"We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself."

Knowledge

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Leon Jouhaux
"At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition."

Creativity

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Leon Jouhaux
"True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep."

Nature

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Leon Jouhaux
"This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress."

Change

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Leon Jouhaux
"In the report made on behalf of the C.G.T. we affirmed that the Peace Treaty should, in accordance with the spirit of workers' organizations, lay the first foundations of the United States of Europe."

Peace

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Leon Jouhaux
"The working classes were becoming more and more sharply aware of the complex causes of international malaise."

Cause

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Leon Jouhaux
"This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization."

Conflict

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Leon Jouhaux
"From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world."

Peace

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Leon Jouhaux
"I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart."

Peace

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Leon Jouhaux
"Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers."

Government

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