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> [Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/doing-for-people-what-they-can-and-ought-to-do-for-themselves-is-a/)

[Samuel Gompers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-gompers/)

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> [Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/doing-for-people-what-they-can-and-ought-to-do-for-themselves-is-a-2/)

[Samuel Gompers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-gompers/)

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## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/what-does-labor-want-we-want-more-schoolhouses-and-less-jails-more/)

[Samuel Gompers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-gompers/)

> [There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/there-is-not-a-right-too-long-denied-to-which-we-do-not-aspire-in/)

[Samuel Gompers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-gompers/)

> [Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/our-mission-has-been-the-protection-of-the-wage-worker-now-to/)

[Samuel Gompers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-gompers/)

> [There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/there-may-be-here-and-there-a-worker-who-for-certain-reasons/)

[Samuel Gompers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-gompers/)

> [Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/time-is-the-most-valuable-thing-on-earth-time-to-think-time-to-act/)

[Samuel Gompers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-gompers/)

> [No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/no-lasting-gain-has-ever-come-from-compulsion/)

[Samuel Gompers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/to-be-free-the-workers-must-have-choice-to-have-choice-they-must/)

[Samuel Gompers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-gompers/)

> [“Great minds like a think -The Economist-”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/great-minds-like-a-think-the-economist/)

[Samuel Gompers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-gompers/)

> [So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service, we have sustained…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/so-long-as-we-have-held-fast-to-voluntary-principles-and-have-been/)

[Samuel Gompers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-gompers/)

> [All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/all-other-holidays-are-in-a-more-or-less-degree-connected-with/)

[Samuel Gompers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-gompers/)

> [Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . . There is not a right too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/our-movement-is-of-the-working-people-for-the-working-people-by-the/)

[Samuel Gompers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-gompers/)

> [The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/the-periods-of-unemployment-accompanying-depression-in-the-business/)

[Samuel Gompers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/what-does-labor-want-we-want-more-schoolhouses-and-less-jails-more-2/)

[Samuel Gompers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-gompers/)

> [One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man's attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/one-fact-stands-out-in-bold-relief-in-the-history-of-man-s-attempts/)

[Samuel Gompers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-gompers/)

> [The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/the-labor-of-a-human-being-is-not-a-commodity-or-article-of-commerce/)

[Samuel Gompers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-gompers/)

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