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I am for the state only doing what people are unable to do in the absence of government action.

— Walter Reuther Television interview with Mike Wallace (1960)

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Only in an atmosphere of freedom can the creative genius of the human spirit find full expression.

Address before the Indian Council on World Affairs (1956)

Let us never forget that he who would serve God must prove that he is worthy by serving man.

Closing address at the final convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1955)

We must learn to judge people, not by their color or race or creed, but rather by their worth as human beings.

Address before the Indian Council on World Affairs (1956)

This is our goal—a world of peace, freedom, and social justice for all people everywhere.

Address before the Berlin Freedom Rally (1959)

Free management must realize that in a free society there is no substitute for the voluntary discharge of social responsibility.

Address accepting the Presidency of the CIO (1952)

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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