GEORGE MEANY

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

It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.

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

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

He [Richard Nixon] is still the handmaiden of big business as he always has been.

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

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

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 our belief; that is our creed.

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

Communism of every type and stripe brings with it an ideological straight jacket. Thought control, brain-washing, censorship, imprisonment, exile, mental and physical torture are the indispensable weapons of Communist rule.

Don't beg, don't threaten and don't assume you're always right.

He [Richard Nixon] is still the handmaiden of big business as he always has been.

Communism of every type and stripe brings with it an ideological straight jacket. Thought control, brain-washing, censorship, imprisonment, exile, mental and physical torture are the indispensable weapons of Communist rule.

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

It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.

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

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 our belief; that is our creed.

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

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

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

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

The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will be - to better the standards of life for all who work for wages and to seek decency and justice and dignity for all Americans.

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