Quotes of: Labor-day Keyword

I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship.

Bill de Blasio

Nil Sine Magno Labore ("Nothing without great effort") --Motto of Brooklyn College

Tony-Paul de Vissage

May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.

Walter Ulbricht

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

Isabel Allende

Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.

Madeleine M. Kunin

I want to talk about the difference between living and existing, and what it was like to be kept on an acute psychiatric ward for day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after ...

Nathan Filer

The word "travel" comes from the Old French word "travail" (or "travailler"), which means "to work, to labor; a suffering or painful effort, an arduous journey, a tormenting experience." ("Travel," thus, is "a painful and laborious journey"). Whereas...

Europa: Limited Time Edition

All varieties of the producers' policy are advocated on the ground of their alleged ability to raise the party members' standard of living. Protectionism and economic self-sufficiency, labor union pressure and compulsion, labor legislation, minimum w...

Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

Choice: that was the thing. Other people claimed that you can't choose who you love--it just happens!--but Grace and Roman knew that was a bunch of happy horseshit. Of course you chose who you loved. If you didn't choose, you ended up with what was l...

The Toughest Indian in the World

I was pregnable once,” Merill thought to contribute. She remembered how troublesome it made getting around, having a ripe belly. Couldn’t roll properly, couldn’t hop properly, couldn’t romp or flop properly. There were the cravings for roaste...

Where Madness Roosts

I do not understand a man who does not want to know all that he can know. Why would anyone choose ignorance? If he chooses ignorance because he is lay, then he is a fool, for the ignorant are put to hard labor digging and hauling stones for masters w...

Kate Horsley

Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing. They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights. They favor mini...

Harry S. Truman

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

Joshua Reynolds

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Point Counter Point

Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.

Bill Shorten

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.

Rebecca Harding Davis

Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and service unions grow.

Thomas E. Mann

I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people.

John Wells

Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association.

Leland Stanford

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander

The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it - whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that's always and everywhere a subjective decision.

James Surowiecki