Labor Quotes

1710 Labor quotes by 1075 unique authors

Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination. — Bob Taft
Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done. — Sidney Hillman
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. — Menander
This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without… — Frederick Law Olmsted
Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the… — William Petty
Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should… — John Bigelow
Honest labor bears a lovely face. — Thomas Dekker
We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have… — Samuel Gompers
Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great… — Dixie Carter
The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of… — David Wilmot
The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would… — John Bates Clark
If he wants their labor, let them go to work, without regard to politics. — Charles E. Merrill
I think he was explicit that it was a slave labor situation, but I was not alarmed at that point, because there were so many… — Charles Guggenheim
The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character,… — Mary Harris Jones
We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely… — Robert W. Welch, Jr.
The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always… — Jane Byrne
We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need… — Denis Kearney
A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict. — Robert Shea
The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor. — John Thorn
True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us. — Henry Cabot Lodge

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