Labor Day Quotes
Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.
Bill Dodds




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.




Nonbureaucratic, participative, solidarity-driven, noncommercial, arty. With all those manifest virtues, you have to wonder why a setup like this can’t seem to last any longer than a Labor Day weekend.
Bruce Sterling




Labor Day differs in every essential from other holidays of the year in any country. All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflict and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
Samual Gempers




What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures
Samuel Gompers




The 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




Manual 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 Chase




Learning without thought is labor lost.




You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.




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




Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.




Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick
Thomas Adams




Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense
Thomas Arnold Bennett




Let us then, be up and doing. With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait
Henry Wadsworth




The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.
Michael Moore




Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.




Exercise is labor without weariness.




[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.




Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement and love without penalties.
W. L. George




There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness
Liberty Hyde Bailey




ï Never buy the cheapest wine in any category, as its taste may discourage you from going on. The glass, corks, cartons, and labor are about the same for any wine, as are the ocean freight and taxes for imported wines. Consequently, if you spend a little more, you are likely to get a better wine, because the other costs remain fixed. Cheap wine will always be too expensive.
Alex Bespaloff




Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.




He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Menander




For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labor, which is what gives money its value.




There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
Joshua Reynolds







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