America Quote by Abraham Lincoln

All that harms labor is treason to America.

— Abraham Lincoln

There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

— Abraham Lincoln

The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.

— Lane Kirkland

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

— John Ruskin

Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.

— Orville Dewey

The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

— Leo Tolstoy

Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.

— Thomas F. Wilson

Free trade should not mean free labor.

— Stephen F. Lynch

“We will grind you revolutionists down under our heel, and we shall walk upon your faces. The world is ours, we are its lords,…

— Jack London

President Trump ran on protecting U.S. jobs and renegotiating unfair trade policies - those policies strengthen labor laws around the world.

— Jan Schakowsky