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«Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.»
Author: Molly Ivins
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«The Soviet Union, which has complained recently about alleged anti-Soviet themes in American advertising, lodged an official protest this week against the Ford Motor Company's new campaign: 'Hey you stinking fat Russian, get off my Ford Escort.'»
Author: Dennis Miller
(Actor, Comedian)
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«YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMNYANK.)»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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American union, an American, New Englander, Northern, Northern States, southern, Southern states, The northern states, Yankee
«I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; /neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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American union, bleeding, bleeding heart, Native American, oneness, quivering, quivers, the union
«Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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American union, cleverness, infrequent, spiritualism, trait, Yankee
«When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right to compel them to obedience»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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America and Americans,
Obedience
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American union, compel, confederation, Natural right, natural state, obedience, refuses
«I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union.»
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