Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2020-05-25 May 25, 2020America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to "the common good," but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance -- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.~ Ayn RandI want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can reestablish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty.~ Calvin CoolidgeGovernment machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.~ John Maynard Keynes May 22, 2020Toward good men God has the mind of a father, he cherishes for them a manly love, and he says, "Let them be harassed by toil, by suffering, by losses, in order that they may gather true strength." Bodies grown fat through sloth are weak, and not only labour, but even movement and their very weight cause them to break down. Unimpaired prosperity cannot withstand a single blow; but he who has struggled constantly with his ills becomes hardened through suffering; and yields to no misfortune; nay, even if he falls, he still fights upon his knees.~ Lucius Annaeus SenecaAbsence of occupation is not rest,A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.~ William Cowper May 21, 2020Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work.~ Felix RohatynThe production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.~ Leland StanfordWithout labor nothing prospers.~ Sophocles May 20, 2020Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.~ Adam SmithAll wealth is the product of labor.~ John LockeThere is no real wealth but the labor of man.~ Percy Bysshe Shelley May 19, 2020I would like to call upon America to be more careful with its trust ... and prevent those ... because of short-sightedness and still others out of self-interest, from falsely using the struggle for peace and for social justice to lead you down a false road. Because they are trying to weaken you; they are trying to disarm your strong and magnificent country in the face of this fearful threat. ... I call upon you: ordinary working men of America ... do not let yourselves become weak.~ Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.~ George OrwellI believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.~ John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print