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"I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy."

"I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives."

"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."

"Ambition is not a vice of little people."
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"The 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."


"We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor."


"Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty."


"There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish."


"Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens."


"The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish."


"Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected."
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