Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2022-10-04 Oct 4, 2022Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.~ BuddhaI 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 CoolidgeLabor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.~ James Weldon Johnson Oct 3, 2022Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.~ David FrostThe non-producers now receive the larger share of what those who labor produce. The result is natural. Discontent culminates in exactly the same ratio that intelligence sustains aspiration.~ Frederick DouglassI own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic -- it is also a truth, that if industry and labour are left to take their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive, and this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out.~ James Madison Sep 30, 2022We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting, and indefatigable work, into which the whole heart is put.~ Frederick DouglassThere is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.~ Gordon B. HinckleyMy grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.~ Indira Gandhi Sep 29, 2022Capital 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 George[E]very Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property.~ John LockeFor what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Sep 28, 2022Labor 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 LincolnHe who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.~ Daniel WebsterEverything in the world is purchased by labor.~ David Hume Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print