Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2015-09-17 Sep 17, 2015There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.~ William Tecumseh ShermanThe great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.~ John Kenneth GalbraithThe monarchy is a labor intensive industry.~ Harold Wilson Sep 16, 2015Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.~ William Howard TaftLabor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.~ Ulysses S. GrantThe tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.~ William Cobbett Sep 15, 2015Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.~ Henry GeorgeAll wealth is the product of labor.~ John LockeWithout labor nothing prospers.~ Sophocles Sep 14, 2015Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.~ Mary Ellen ChaseHonest labor bears a lovely face.~ Thomas DekkerUndoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.~ William Ellery Channing Sep 11, 2015The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.~ Albert CamusHe who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.~ Daniel WebsterWhen money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.~ Leland Stanford Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print