Labor Quotes - Page 5

• A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Smile, Men

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• The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Land, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.161, Fordham Univ Press

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• If you want to kill time why not try working it to death.

  Sam Levenson

  Time, Trying, Want

  "You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson".

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• While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot.
  [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores.
  Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]

  Ovid

  Feet, Years, Age

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• With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.

  Clarence Darrow

  Honesty, Character, Men

  The Railroad Trainman, November 1909.

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• It's a question of not so much pushing the boys out of the picture, but making the whole frame bigger so that both men and women access the labor market, contribute to the economy, generate growth, have jobs, and so on.

  Christine Lagarde

  Jobs, Boys, Men

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• Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Life, Success, World

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• Labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thraldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Labour Movement, Realization, Organized Labor

  "An Ideal Labor Press". The Metal Worker, May 1904.

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• Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie-labor is fighting for a larger pie.

  Walter Reuther

  Struggle, Fighting, Pie

  The New Republic, Vol. 114, 1946.

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• There is no real wealth but the labour of man.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Real, Men, Wealth

  "Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Top Complete Works Collection".

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• The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Long, Wages, Unions

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• How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

  Studs Terkel

  Work, Fighting, Eight

  Studs Terkel, Sydney Lewis (2010). “Touch and Go: A Memoir (Large Print 16pt)”, p.92, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Increased interest and participation by labor in the affairs of government should make for economic and political stability in the future. Labor has a constitutional and statutory right to participate.

  John L. Lewis

  Government, Political, Affair

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• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  Victor Hugo

  Education, Business, Men

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.134

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• All wealth is the product of labor.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Fruit Of Labor, Wealth

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• And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ease, Labour

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.90, CUP Archive

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• Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.

  Sidney Phillips

  Inspirational, Men, Hands

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• If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Trust, Hate, Liars

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• Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.

  Ferdinand Lassalle

  Culture, Wealth, Source

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• Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

  Earl Nightingale

  Funny, Work, Humor

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• If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Evil, Passing Away, Making A Difference

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• If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

  Lane Kirkland

  Funny, Money, Hard Work

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• If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men and women to capitalize their labor.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Country, Men, Ideas

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• The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Success, Stress, Men

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• The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."

  Harry Bridges

  Class, Unity, Important

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