Labor Day Quotes

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.

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

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

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.

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

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.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.

He who labors diligently need never despair.

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

A mind always employed is always happy.

Work hard at work worth doing.

I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.

Rules like 'don't wear white after Labor Day' or 'shoes matching the handbag' are antiquated. Modern women should feel free to experiment.

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?

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

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.