"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."

Labor, Land, Occupation, Taxation

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"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."

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"When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less."

Christina Engela, South African Author

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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses."

Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish Diplomat

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"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."

Mary Harris Jones, American Activist

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"If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us."

Kin Hubbard, American Journalist

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"I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer."

Leland Stanford, American Educator

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"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 President

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"Labor diligently to increase your property."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"We have no need for genius - genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are willing to give up the ghost and put on flesh..."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s."

Linda Chavez, American Author

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"Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books."

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"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

Love

"Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever."

Happiness

"A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort."

Effort

"A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money."

Money

"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."

Education

"The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him."

Man

"Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade."

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"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."

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