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Labor Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
- Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done…
- Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.
- The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors…
- No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
- Labor is the true standard of value.
- The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.
- Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.
- 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…
- And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would…
- Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
- 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…
- No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, an…
- Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it…
- All that harms labor is treason to America.
- I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.
- We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may…
- By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a…
- Prosperity is the fruit of labor. It begins with saving money.
- Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us
- It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it. If men choose…
- Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.
- There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.
- To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.
- Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed had not labor first existed.
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- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort… — James A. Baldwin
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
- Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the… — Warren Beatty
- No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. — Max Beerbohm
- We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector,… — Carol Bellamy
- Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for… — Grace Abbott
- I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to… — Lewis Black
- Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it… — Allan Bloom