Quotes About Labor

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Tariffs protect ill-considered government policies, such as costly regulations and high taxes on labor and capital that make our goods uncompetitive in international markets.

It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

Let me make our goal in this program very clear: jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Our policy has been and will continue to be: What is good for the American worker is good for America.

To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.

American labor may now look to the future with confidence.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

The difference between success and failure is work.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.

Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

The key to happiness is not being rich; it's doing something arduous and creating something of value and then being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.

A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to the welfare of the state.

Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.