Quotes About Labor

When men are employ'd, they are best content'd; for on the days they worked they were good-natur'd and cheerful, and, with the consciousness of having done a good day's work, they spent the evening jollily; but on our idle days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their pork, the bread, etc.

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears; while the used key is always bright

Do I use food and drink in no other sort and in no other degree than was designed by Him who gave these creatures for our sustenance? Do I never abuse my body by inordinate labor, striving to accomplish some end which I have unwisely proposed? Do I use action enough in some useful employ, or do I sit too much idle while some persons who labor to support me have too great a share of it? If in any of these things I am deficient, to be incited to consider it is a favor to me.

All things are easy to industry, All things are difficult to sloth.

free men, whose minds were properly on their business, found a satisfaction in improving, cultivating, and providing for their families; but negroes, laboring to support others who claim them as their property, and expecting nothing but slavery during life, had not the like inducement to be industrious.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

I worked diligently alongside our labor community to ensure that the priorities of our community were reflected in the USMCA, helping to secure strong enforcement mechanisms, protections for workers and the environment, and provisions to lower the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs.

I want to build a Big Labor party. A party of big ideas. A party which is deeply connected to the community. A party which reflects our diverse nation.

Labour reforms are not anti-worker.

To these economic refugees, maybe we should tell them, 'We'll call you when we need you.'

The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to labor, the law will not interfere to compel him. The master must do his own flogging, as in the case of an ox or a horse.

If he wants their labor, let them go to work, without regard to politics.

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.

The overtime rule was frankly diluted in 2004 by a regulation put in place by the Bush administration.

I'm the first secretary of labor in the 21st century, and the competitiveness of the American work force and the modernization of decades-old regulations have been among our top priorities.

Everybody in my family who had a job worked in the auto industry or something related to it.

Labor force participation peaked in early 2000, so its decline began well before the Great Recession. A portion of that decline clearly relates to the aging of the baby boom generation. But the pace of decline accelerated with the recession.

For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.

In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe.

You can call me whatever you want to call me, just keep hiring me.

I am proud to stand with working families and honored to have AFGE's support.

I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day.

We keep horses. I have to keep working.