LABOR QUOTES VI

quotations about labor

Labor quote

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.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

annual message, Dec. 3, 1861

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I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to. I wish to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

speech, Mar. 5, 1860

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It is ... only through strife, through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and by resolute courage, we move on to better things.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

response to the toast "The State of New York" at the Lincoln Club Dinner in New York City, Feb. 13, 1899

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We assert that labor which is now monotonous, repugnant, and degrading, can be ennobled, elevated, and made honorable; or in other words, that industry can be rendered attractive!

A. BRISBANE

attributed, Day's Collacon


The efforts of a boy to avoid labor often sum up more than the original task.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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

ANATOLE FRANCE

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

Notes on Virginia

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For me, hard labor is a mixture of violence interspersed with very peaceful breaks, where, in this quiet moment, the power and energy of the exercise becomes apparent in the physicality and physiognomy of the person working.

JACKIE NICKERSON

"Exhibit: Jackie Nickerson", Crave, March 14, 2016


The hope of reward is the solace of labor.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus

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Without labor nothing prospers.

SOPHOCLES

attributed, Day's Collacon

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