Quote by Adam Smith
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. – Adam Smith

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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. – Adam Smith

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Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. – Adam Smith

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The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him. – Ernest Bevin

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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. – Arthur Balfour

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It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent. – James Connolly

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