American Quote by H. W. Brands

I'm aware enough, I guess, of American labor history.

— Ani DiFranco

To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm…

— William J. Clinton

“Our truest and best American antiquity, as the Dominion History of the Union insisted, was the nineteenth century, whose household virtues and modest industries…

— Robert Charles Wilson

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

— Ralph Adams Cram

During three decades from 1947 to 1977, the nation implemented what might be called a basic bargain with American workers. Employers paid them enough…

— Robert Reich

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

— James Mackintosh

Whatever there is of greatness in the United States, or indeed in any other country, is due to labor. The laborer is the author…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Labor Day is a fitting tribute to the contributions of American workers in industries other than those that recently destroyed America.

— Anonymous

Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the…

— Henry Ford

Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

— Alexander Crummell

The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place.

— Ivan Illich

“And after generations of redistributive progressive income and inheritance taxes, the economic elite was losing its lead. Income in America during the mid-1970s was…

— Jane Mayer