Labor Day Quotes

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.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

He who labors diligently need never despair.

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

A mind always employed is always happy.

Work hard at work worth doing.

I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?

There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Rules like 'don't wear white after Labor Day' or 'shoes matching the handbag' are antiquated. Modern women should feel free to experiment.

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

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

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.

Labor Day, I suppose set by an Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress. How Congress knew anything about Labor is beyond us.

Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

In 2004 Professor Stephen Farnsworth, when I report saying that I got about five minutes on all the networks after Labor Day to election day: only five minutes even though I, like you, were representing majoritarian issues.

She left for Juilliard the day after Labor Day. I drove her to the airport. She kissed me good-bye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she stepped through security. She never came back.

Tomorrow is our final show. That is unless it rains, and then there will be a rain delay. We'll probably make it up in a doubleheader around Labor Day.

The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today's world, that does not exist.

well that's convenient, i guess blessings are easier to come by than i thought. maybe i should ask for blessings on my mission against all those who wear white after labor day

The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.

Every day should be Labor Day. We have to fight for the basic proposition that apprenticeship is a wonderful ticket to the middle class. When we're fighting for things like paid leave, America is the only industrialized nation on the planet that doesn't have some form of paid leave - these are not bold ideas elsewhere in the world.