Quotes About Labor

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests.

If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences

There's no doubt that Mexican men and women - full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work - are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.

I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.

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

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.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.

The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.

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 man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

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

The true face of the unions is not now a man in a hard hat as much as it is a woman in a classroom or in cleaning smocks.

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

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.

I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men.

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.