Unions quotes
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"They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it consists in nothing except the surrender and subjection of our will - with our thoughts, words and actions - to the will of God."
"Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves."
"Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties."
"The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union."
"With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined."
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"The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker."
"Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God."
"Our cause is just. Our union is perfect."
"There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained."
"While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection."
"Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union."
"The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom."
"We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition."
"We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race."
"It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions."
"I never wanted to fight against the Union, but could not turn my back on Virginia."
"Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost."
"Blood is the rose of mysterious union."
"The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature."
"The free exchange of consent properly witnessed by the Church establishes the marriage bond. Sexual union consummates it - seals it, completes it, perfects it. Sexual union, then, is where the words of the wedding vows become flesh."
"The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body."
"Marriage is an exclusive union between one man and one woman, publicly acknowledged, permanently sealed, and physically consummated."
"Not partial membership of the European Union or anything that leaves us half in, half out. No, the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union."
"The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal."
"The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ."
