Freedom Quote by Jeff Davidson

“Like a soldier, the carpenter sharpens his own tools. He carries his equipment in his tool box, and works under the direction of his…

— Miyamoto Musashi

“The things that are indispensable require no elaborate pains for their acquisition; it is only the luxuries that call for labour. Follow nature, and…

— Seneca

A man and his tools make a man and his trade.

— Vita Sackville-West

Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly…

— John Smith

“A man with battered hands is shown to be a craftsman only when he puts them to work.”

— Miguel Syjuco

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Carpenters don’t make their saws and hammers, tailors don’t make their scissors and needles, and plumbers don’t make their wrenches, but blacksmiths can make…

— Daniel C. Dennett

The tools belong to the man who can use them.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“A man who works with his hands is a labourer. A man who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. A…

— Saint Francis of Assisi

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things…

— Charles Horton Cooley

Thus the labour of a manufacture adds, generally, to the value of the materials which he works upon, that of his own maintenance, and…

— Adam Smith

“A man who works with his hands is a laborer. A man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman. A…

— Louis Nizer