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Labor Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
- They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.
- Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as…
- Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
- I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
- 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…
- To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and…
- A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness. If we…
- I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.
- I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put…
- Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
- I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means…
- Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
- A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of…
- Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
- ‎We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat…
- A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry…
- A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the…
More Labor Quotes
- 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