Grover Cleveland Quotes

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country.

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to...I like the system which lets a man quit when he wants to and wish it might prevail everywhere.

If there is to be peace in our industrial life, let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees

My heart lies with the workers.

There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.

I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.

Union members not only earn higher median wages; they are more likely to have paid sick leave, short-term disability, and employer-provided child care. Giving people a voice at work - the ability to organize and negotiate for their fair share of the value they helped create - is absolutely essential to a growing, vibrant middle class.

We want work and we want honest jobs. Our minds and our hands will be our keep!

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

I reject the idea that any job is too hard or too dirty for American workers to do. American workers just expect and demand to be paid a decent wage.

I am always on the side of labor when there is any compromise to be made.

The Church fully supports the right of workers to form unions or other associations to secure their rights to fair wages and working conditions.

Unions may also legitimately resort to strikes where this is the only available means to the justice owed to workers

There can be no distress, there can be no hard times, when labor is well paid. The man who raises his hand against the progress of the workingman raises his hand against prosperity.

A fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work is ever my partner’s motto.

It is essential that the worker in industry should have the status of an individual and not a mere cog in a soulless machine.

What labor is demanding all over the world today is not a few material things like more dollars and fewer hours of work, but the right to a voice in the conduct of industry.

Man is born to labor.

The whole contention lies between those that labor for a living and those that do not.

Japan has a philosophy that the harder we work, the better life will be .... Other countries don't put the same value on work.

We must have modern conditions to meet modern machinery. As labor-saving devices are installed and used for production we must necessarily shorten the number of hours per day, and we are now at the state where we will necessarily have to come to a five day week because, gentlemen, you cannot have prosperity unless you have employment.

If any man tells you that he loves America yet he hates labor, then that man is a liar.