Labor Standards Amendment

Famous quotes containing the words labor, standards and/or amendment:

    “When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege.”
    —Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)

    “A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.”
    —Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)

    “The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.”
    —George F. Will (b. 1934)