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You take my life when you take the means whereby I live.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Full employment does not mean literally no unemployment; that is to say, it does not mean that every man and woman in the country who is fit and free for work is employed productively every day of his or her working life ... Full employment means that unemployment is reduced to short intervals of standing by, with the certainty that very soon one will be wanted in one's old job again or will be wanted in a new job that is within one's powers.
WILLIAM HENRY BEVERIDGE, Full Employment in a Free Society
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
HARRY S. TRUMAN, quoted in Phillips' Treasury of Humorous Quotations
Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature -- unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
WILLIAM HENRY BEVERIDGE, Causes and Cures of Unemployment
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
CALVIN COOLIDGE, quoted in The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations
Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.
MASON COOLEY, City Aphorisms
Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.
JANE ADDAMS, Twenty Years at Hull-House
The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning, you're on the job.
SLAPPY WHITE, quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners
Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
RONALD REAGAN, Sacramento Bee, Apr. 28, 1966
The best social program is a good job.
BILL CLINTON
I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.
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