Charles E. Merrill Quotes

The NLRB provides important protections to American workers.

Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.

The right to control their own government according to constitutional forms is not one of the rights that the citizens of this country are called upon to surrender in time of war.

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

'Negative liberty' is a political science term meaning a liberty from government action. It is not a liberty to anything - like the liberty to meaningfully contribute to public debate or to have ample spaces for speech.

I envisage there being absolutely no regulation whatsoever - no minimum wage, no maternity or paternity rights, no unfair dismissal rights, no pension rights - for the smallest companies that are trying to get off the ground, in order to give them a chance.

I'm going to take a series of actions on day one to protect American workers.

If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once.

I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

The United States gave me opportunities that my country of origin could not: freedom of the press and complete freedom of expression.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

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

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

No one respects the First Amendment more than I do. People have a right to express their concerns and their hopes and dreams to their government.

Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country.

But look what happens when the government gives you rights. When the government gives you rights, unlike when God gives you rights, the government can take them away. When government gives you rights, the government can tell you how to exercise those rights.

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.

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

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

Give the working-man the right to work as long as he is healthy; assure him care when he is sick; assure him maintenance when he is old.

The subject of human rights in China is one which I have discussed on numerous occasions in the United States. In fact, I've talked so much about it, that I practically have blisters on my mouth. Human rights in China have been improving from one day to the next, and I think it's fair to say that the degree of human rights now being enjoyed by the Chinese people is unprecedented in China's history. We acknowledge that we still have shortcomings, and these shortcomings are ones which we are still working hard to address

Neither the common law nor the Fourteenth Amendment confers the absolute right to strike.

… the Civil Liberties Union was defending the right of Abramovitch to lie without interruption or heckling.

The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the press, by the pen, all political questions, and to examine and animadvert upon all political institutions ... [is] a right as clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact to their existence, that without is we must fall at once into despotism and anarchy.