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• To preserve a trading state from decline, the greatest care must be taken, to support a perfect balance between the hands employed in work and the demand for their labour.

  James Steuart

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Labour

• My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and Labour supporter.

  Robert Harris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Labour, Parents

• Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.

  David Low

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Labour

• I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years.

  Peter Mandelson

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Labour

• And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Labour

• The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.

  Francis Maude

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Problem, Labour

• Well can I just say unlike my predecessors, Conservative and Labour, I have set up an independent body that studies whether what I’m saying is true, whether I’ve met the targets that I set out.

  George Osborne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conservative, Labour

• We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.

  Thomas Clarkson

  Topics in God

  Tags in Labour

• He who labours, prays.

  Saint Aurelius Augustine

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Labour, Pray

• Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this… will without much labour be effected.

  Edmond Halley

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Labour

• A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league.

  Ron Jaworski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Labour, Strike

• First of all it has never been the case that I have threatened people with expulsion or that I’ve threatened to throw people out of the Parliamentary Labour Party.

  Ron Davies

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Party, Labour

• The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them.

  Charles E. Wilson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Labour, Directly

• A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

  William Faulkner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Labour, Privilege, Willingly

• Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

  Adam Smith

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Labour, Purchase

• After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.

  Adam Rickitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believing, Politician, Labour

• I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

  C. L. R. James

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Militant, Labour

• Elections are also about the future – the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.

  Anne Campbell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Equality, Elections, Fairness, Uk, Labour

• The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

  William Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reward, Labour

• I didn’t come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

  Tony Blair

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in I Came, Labour