| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Crummell | Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it. |
| Benjamin Franklin | He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor. |
| Benjamin Harrison | I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process. |
| Bible | For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward. |
| Cervantes Saavedra | They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. |
| Dutch Proverb | By labor fire is got out of stone. |
| Harriet H Robinson | Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or colleges. |
| Henry George | For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce. |
| John D Rockefeller | I 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 Florio | Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born. |
| Joseph Joubert | Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. |
| Luc De Clapiers | The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures. |
| Menander | He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. |
| Meridel Le Sueur | Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes. |
| Mother Jones | Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands. |
| Mother Jones | The workers asked only for bread and a shortening of the long hours of toil. The agitators gave them visions. The police gave them clubs. |
| Mother Jones | On their side the workers had only the Constitution. The other side had bayonets. |
| Mother Jones | I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do. |
| Orville Dewey | Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working. |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | There is no real wealth but the labor of man. |
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