Grover Cleveland Quotes

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.

I will stand with the working-class citizens over all else.

It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measure of betterment, they deny the right of the human being to associate with his fellow.

The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

The fight for the liberation of the working class from its present position, which is beneath a free people, is not a fight for new class privileges and prerogatives but for equal rights and equal obligations for all and for the abolition of class rule

It is impossible to place labor and capital in harmonious or friendly relations, except by the means of slavery

It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which one portion did not live on the labor of another.... Remember that labor is the only source of wealth, and how small a portion of it, in all old and civilized countries, even the best governed, is left to those by whose labor wealth is created.

I stand with the working-class citizens.

If change is to come, it must come from the working class. That's why telling their story is important. That's why knowing our history is important.

To improve the standard of living for working folks, we have to raise the minimum wage and empower workers to fight for their interests in an economic and political system that's stacked against them.

Take care of your working-class citizens, and your working-class citizens will take care of you.

Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.

The laboring people should unite and should protect themselves against all idlers. You can divide mankind into two classes: the laborers and the idlers, the supporters and the supported, the honest and the dishonest. Every man is dishonest who lives upon the unpaid labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. All laborers should be brothers.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day, sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .

America's leaders need to put their feet in the shoes of working Americans.

The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.

Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.

Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.

With the coming of peace, the workers are no longer needed as soldiers; they are no longer comrades, defenders of the fatherland, heroes. Once more they become beasts of burden, objects of exploitation.