Quote Tag

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.

Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

All wealth is the product of labor.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers’ wives.

Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.