Working Man Quotes
52 quotes by 47 authors
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When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The…
— Geraldine Brooks
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A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't…
— Marge Piercy
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I have received delegations of working men who come, apparently speaking of the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine…
— Woodrow Wilson
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He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to…
— Henry George
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The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous...
— Abraham Lincoln
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
— Barry Gibb
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A smart man can't beat a hardworking man and a hard working man can't beat a happy working man.
— Taeyang
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The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who…
— Bob Dole
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Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her…
— Coretta Scott King
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to…
— Warren Beatty
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People come up to me on the street and say, 'Men at Work (1990) is the funniest movie I ever saw in my life'. But,…
— Emilio Estevez
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
— Clarence Darrow
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At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned…
— Studs Terkel
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The average American salesmen keeps 33 men and women at work - 33 people producing the product he sells . . . and is responsible…
— Robert A. Whitney
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It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the…
— John Bentley
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Today in America, unions have a secure place in our industrial life. Only a handful of reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions and…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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In the South of long ago whenever a new man appeared for work in any of the laborers gangs, he would be asked if he…
— William Christopher Handy
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I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are…
— Rick Santorum
Who Wrote These Working Man Quotes
47 authors contributed a total of 52 Working Man Quotes, led by these top contributors: