Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, credit, unions and/or totally:
“There is no history of how bad became better.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Taft, laughing, What troubles [brother] Charles is, he is afraid Roosevelt will get the credit of making me President and not himself. To Charles: I will agree not to minimize the part you played in making me President if you will agree not to minimize the part Roosevelt played.”
—William Howard Taft (18571930)
“The newly-formed clothing unions are ready to welcome her; but woman shrinks back from organization, Heaven knows why! It is perhaps because in organization one find the truest freedom, and woman has been a slave too long to know what freedom means.”
—Katharine Pearson Woods (18531923)
“Having a child is the great divide between ones own childhood and adulthood. All at once someone is totally dependent upon you. You are no longer the child of your mother but the mother of your child. Instead of being taken care of, you are responsible for taking care of someone else.”
—Elaine Heffner (20th century)