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"The end of labor is to gain leisure." -Aristotle

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." -Ovid

"The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds." - Abraham Lincoln

"If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men to capitalize their labor." - Franklin Lloyd Wright

"Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice." - Dwight David Eisenhower