Labor Quotes

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The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point. — Abraham Lincoln
Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn. — Abraham Lincoln
Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food… — Abraham Lincoln
And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would… — Abraham Lincoln
Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost. — Abraham Lincoln
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow [sic] which can be done… — Abraham Lincoln
Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. — Kofi Annan
I've never needed a lobbyist personally to put my case. I'd rather put my case myself. But I don't understand how other people look at… — Clive Palmer
Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become… — Wendell Berry
Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences… — Thomas Jefferson
The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that… — Michael Gove
The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the… — Julia Gillard
The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the… — Betty Friedan
If you want it you must obtain it by great labor. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for. — Thomas More
Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause. — Janet Morris
I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants — Dave Beard
If Russia is to be a great power, it will be, not because of its nuclear potential, faith in God or the president, or Western… — Unknown Author
One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve. — Unknown Author

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