LABOR QUOTES VI
quotations about labor
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
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
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
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
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
The efforts of a boy to avoid labor often sum up more than the original task.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Notes on Virginia
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
Without labor nothing prospers.
SOPHOCLES
attributed, Day's Collacon