Disputes Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

— Abraham Lincoln

It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it…

— Friedrich Engels

People want to work, but they don't want to necessarily want to do labour.

— Guy Standing

Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.

— Ferdinand Lassalle

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

— David Hume

It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous…

— Leland Stanford

When we consider that labor is the producer of all wealth, is it not evident that the impoverishment and, dependence of labor are abnormal…

— Henry George

Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

— Alexander Crummell

Ah, why should life all labor be?

— Alfred the Great

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

— Henry Ford