Famous quotes containing the words general, strike and/or called:
“You have lived longer than I have and perhaps may have formed a different judgment on better grounds; but my observations do not enable me to say I think integrity the characteristic of wealth. In general I believe the decisions of the people, in a body, will be more honest and more disinterested than those of wealthy men.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“The first to strike will gain the upper hand.”
—Chinese proverb.
“When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.”
—Jesse Jackson (b. 1941)