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

What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!

Always remember that the labor that is congenial is the one always that secret of happiness that all want around the world.

Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor

Labor takes its share in wages; capital takes its share in profits.

A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

I think that probably in some areas the Labor message about some of the things that they said we were going to do – and which we weren’t going to do – cut through

You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store. […] There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened.

The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians.

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass

The historic dearth of labor was perhaps the central feature of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice

Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.

Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve economic freedom for the average man, which will give his political freedom reality.

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.

What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Industry cannot flourish if labor languishes

Workmen’s compensation, hours, and conditions of labor are cold consolations if there is no employment

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

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

And so it is with our own past. It is a labor in vain to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile.

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor

A kindness is never wasted

He who gives his labor for money sells himself and puts himself in the rank of slaves.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.