Quotes of Samuel Gompers - somelinesforyou

“ Workingmen are at the foundation of society. 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. ”

- Samuel Gompers

“ No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money. ”

- Samuel Gompers

“ No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money. ”

- Samuel Gompers

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

- Samuel Gompers

“ It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests. ”

- Samuel Gompers

“ The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. ”

- Samuel Gompers

“ 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 Gompers

“ You can't do it unless you organize. ”

- Samuel Gompers

“ 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 Gompers

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

- Samuel Gompers

“ You can't do it unless you organize. ”

- Samuel Gompers

“ 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 Gompers

“ 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 Gompers

“ To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work. ”

- Samuel Gompers

“ You can't do it unless you organize. ”

- Samuel Gompers

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

- Samuel Gompers

“ It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests. ”

- Samuel Gompers

“ To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work. ”

- Samuel Gompers

“ The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. ”

- Samuel Gompers

“ You can't do it unless you organize. ”

- Samuel Gompers

“ The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. ”

- Samuel Gompers

“ 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, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright. ”

- Samuel Gompers

“ 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 Gompers

“ It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests. ”

- Samuel Gompers

“ 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 Gompers

“ It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests. ”

- Samuel Gompers

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

- Samuel Gompers

“ 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, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright. ”

- Samuel Gompers

“ 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 Gompers

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

- Samuel Gompers
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