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“We heard from the abortionists and we heard from the people who looked like Jacks, acted like Jills and had the odors of Johns.”

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The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.

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Anybody who has any doubt about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.

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Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.

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One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is…

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Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

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The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

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It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.

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“When we think of the historic struggles and conflicts of the current and past century, we naturally think of famous leaders: men who governed…

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Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.

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Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes.

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