Warren G. Harding Quotes

Why cannot we sit down together with a board of arbitration, honestly state our difficulties and try to work out a sane method of procedure?

Something may be done under Federal authority to prevent the disturbances which so often arise from disputes between employers and the employed.

In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.

If we have done anything wrong, send your man to my man and they can fix it up.

Economic disputes are rarely the real cause of a strike. We do not have a strike because negotiations break down; negotiations break down because the situation is a strike situation.

There is no other bargaining but collective bargaining.

No better strike leader than John N. Mitchell has ever emerged in any time of industrial strife.

It takes someone with a unique background to stand up to the threat of a strike and win.

I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.

Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action.

With one decision, Judge Sotomayor changed the entire dispute. Her ruling rescued the 1995 baseball season and forced the parties to resume real negotiations.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

I'm not going to stop beating up on the unions.

I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

I think most conflicts do end with negotiated settlements; some don't, but most do.

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.