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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
Unions

"Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism."

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Scott Walker Politician
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"The people who are making you feel under attack is your union leadership, and they're doing it for politically intense reasons."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union."

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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
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"Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering."

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Gordon Brown Politician
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"I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Part of the NAFTA legislation required studies of labor practices, and there was quite a good study that came out by a labor historian on the use of NAFTA to undermine and destroy unions."

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Kid Rock Musician, Actor
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"I make a lot of money. I can take a pay cut. All my friends are taking pay cuts that are in the unions, that are - that are farming in Alabama or whatever it is. I can surely take a pay cut, too, not cutting down my show or - or the people that work for me, I can take a pay cut."

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John Taylor Musician
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"If the means to which the government of the union may resort for executing the power confided to it, are unlimited, it may easily select such as will impair or destroy the powers confided to the state governments."

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Homer Poet
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"Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved."

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
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"One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on a British, European Union passport and a green card, was my identification with the United States in the post-September 11th period."

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions."

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Leon Trotsky Revolutionary, Politician
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"It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution in other countries."

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