Laborers Quotes
102 quotes by 88 authors
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I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.
— Abraham Lincoln
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In the South of long ago whenever a new man appeared for work in any of the laborers gangs, he would be asked if he…
— William Christopher Handy
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The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and…
— Laurance Labadie
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A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren…
— Denis Kearney
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If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of…
— Mark Hanna
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All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage laborers, would be…
— Lysander Spooner
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The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer...form the great body of the people of the United States they are the bone and sinew…
— Andrew Jackson
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Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges—to…
— Andrew Jackson
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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…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to…
— Leah Hager Cohen
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The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can…
— Hudson Taylor
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It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not…
— Orison Swett Marden
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If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.
— Julien Benda
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Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious,…
— William Graham Sumner
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If each year slightly less capital is invested in industry, the time will eventually come when the amount of equipment per laborer and, in consequence,…
— Sumner Slichter
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as…
— Adam Gopnik
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The American people have no idea they are paying the bill. Â They know that someone is stealing their hubcaps, but they think it is…
— G. Edward Griffin
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Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right…
— Andrew Carnegie
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The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers.
— Dallas Willard
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