Labor Day quotes
42 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living."
"Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor."
"Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration"
"The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor."
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"Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased."
"Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration."
"Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close."
"A mind always employed is always happy."
"Work hard at work worth doing."
"A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity."
"Rules like 'don't wear white after Labor Day' or 'shoes matching the handbag' are antiquated. Modern women should feel free to experiment."
"It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything."
"I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage."
"Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration."
"Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things."
"He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man."
"The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor."
"Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty."
