John B. Montgomery Quotes

But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.

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

This is the greatest country in the world for people who want to work, but we have to make sure that this is always true..

Your Irish railways employ thousands of men, whose working hours average twelve per day. Were they restricted to a forty-eight-hour week of labor, employment would he provided for thousands of Irishmen who at present are driven exiles from their native land.

The Negro claims, as a matter of simple justice, his full share in America's economic and social life. He sees adequate employment opportunities as a chief means of attaining this goal

In a market economy, the right to seek employment is fundamental … the issue goes beyond economy. It’s an issue of human rights.

The first duty of this government is to give the workers work.

I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.

I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.

A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.

The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.

When it comes down to it, I just want to work.

We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working.

I will never be unemployed.

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.

We have tried voluntary codes and we have tried free markets, but they have not worked, so we need to try something else. Legislation is not a panacea for all the inequalities in the workplace, but it will go a long way towards stopping them. Effective employment legislation is needed

The great question will forever remain, who shall work?

All people shall have the right and the obligation to work.

A man’s right to his job transcends the right of private property.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them

We want nothing about what is said about abolishing property rights, rather we respect them. But work is the only property of workers, and therefore we want laws to protect the only property of workers, his manpower

It was repugnant to my convictions and my experience so far to encroach upon the independence of the worker, in his professional life and his rights as the head of a family, as to forbid him by law to exploit his own working capacities, and those of his family, according to his own judgment. I do not believe that the workingman is in himself grateful because he is forbidden to earn money on certain days, and during certain hours, as he may choose.

We present as a grievance the want of a law to prevent the hiring out of negro tradesmen, to the great discouragement of the white workmen coming into this province.

Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant.