The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be determined by…

- John L. Lewis

The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back.

- John L. Lewis

Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows. Its women weep for their fallen and they lament for the future of the children of the race. It ill behooves one…

- John L. Lewis

Increased interest and participation by labor in the affairs of government should make for economic and political stability in the future. Labor has …

- John L. Lewis

No tin-hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes or bibble-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march…

- John L. Lewis

Courage is not how a man stands or falls, but how he gets back up again

- John L. Lewis

I have pleaded (labor's) case, not in the quavering tones of a feeble mendicant asking alms, but in the thundering voice of the captain of a mighty h…

- John L. Lewis

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?

- John L. Lewis

Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.

- John L. Lewis