Labor Quotes

Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.

Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

You go through that stage where you're coming up with the concept, ideas and all that you need to make a record. It always feels like hard labor.

America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor.

Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

No matter what happens in the future, whether it is a Labor government or a Coalition government, whoever is in government is going to have to fix the budget.

The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.

Yes to trade, but trade that ensures that these other countries that trade with us aren't engaging in child labor.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

The treasures of Cathay were never found. In this America, this wilderness Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound, The generations labor to possess And grave by grave we civilize the ground.

I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it's become it's a labor of love. They love what they do.

In this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.

Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Newt Gingrich wants to repeal child labor laws. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the man that we need to lead us into the 18th century.

Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work.

Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform.

The market is not a place, a thing, or a collective entity. The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.

[T]he State . . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.

I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.

I'm convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.

Continued focus on (employee) turnover is of critical importance, because of the direct relation of turnover to improvements in labor costs and guest satisfaction.

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor.

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

Lincoln sees slavery in some ways as a theft of labor. A slave is a laborer who is being denied the fruits of his labor.

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine.

The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.