Unemployed Workmen Act

Famous quotes containing the words unemployed, workmen and/or act:

“To the cry of “follow Mormons and prairie dogs and find good land,” Civil War veterans flocked into Nebraska, joining a vast stampede of unemployed workers, tenant farmers, and European immigrants.”
—For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“When workmen strive to do better than well,
They do confound their skill in covetousness.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)