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	Felix Adler	In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
	Aristotle	The end of labor is to gain leisure.
	Mikhail Bakunin	The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation -- which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence.
	Doug Bandow	Being paid by the government to shelve books in a library, whether as an employee or as an Americorps member, is no more laudable or valuable than being paid by Crown Books to stock bookshelves in a bookstore. A host of private-sector jobs provide enormous public benefits—consider health care professionals, medical and scientific researchers, entrepreneurs, inventors, and artists. Many of these people earn less than they could in alternative work; they have chosen to serve in their own way. Yet government programs that equate public employment with service to society effectively denigrate service through private employment.
	Frederic Bastiat	A Fatal Tendency of Mankind. Self-preservation and self-development are common aspirations among all people. And if everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing. But there is also another tendency that is common among people. When they can, they wish to live and prosper at the expense of others. This is no rash accusation. Nor does it come from a gloomy and uncharitable spirit. The annals of history bear witness to the truth of it: the incessant wars, mass migrations, religious persecutions, universal slavery, dishonesty in commerce, and monopolies. This fatal desire has its origin in the very nature of man -- in that primitive, universal, and insuppressible instinct that impels him to satisfy his desires with the least possible pain.
	Frederic Bastiat	And what is this liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties -- liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, of labor, of trade?
	Buddha	Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
	Robert Burns	Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
	Albert Camus	The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
	Dr. Ben Carson	My mother worked as a domestic, two, sometimes three jobs at a time because she didn’t want to be on welfare. She felt very strongly that if she gave up and went on welfare, that she would give up control of her life and of our lives, and I think she was probably correct about that. … But, one thing that she provided us was a tremendous example of what hard work is like.
	William Ellery Channing	Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
	Mary Ellen Chase	Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
	Salmon P. Chase	If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised. ... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.
	Noam Chomsky	In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It's hard to believe, but it was based in Texas, and it was quite radical. They wanted their own banks, their own cooperatives, their own control over sales and commerce.
	William Cobbett	The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.
	Calvin Coolidge	I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can reestablish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty.
	William Cowper	Absence of occupation is not rest,\\A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
	Luc de Clapiers	The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
	Thomas Dekker	Honest labor bears a lovely face.
	Frederick Douglass	The non-producers now receive the larger share of what those who labor produce. The result is natural. Discontent culminates in exactly the same ratio that intelligence sustains aspiration.
	Frederick Douglass	We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting, and indefatigable work, into which the whole heart is put.
	William Faulkner	Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
	Milton Friedman	[U]nemployment is ... a side effect of the cure for inflation.
	Milton Friedman	We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
	Milton Friedman	With respect to teachers' salaries .... Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.
	Milton Friedman	The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn't do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn't do a thing for them.
	Milton Friedman	The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
	David Frost	Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.
	John Kenneth Galbraith	The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
	Indira Gandhi	My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
	Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi	The seven blunders that human society commits and cause all the violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principles.
	Henry George	Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
	Henry George	Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground.
	Andre Gide	Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
	Gerald Gilder	If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.
	Joseph Paul Goebbels	We are a workers’ party because we see in the coming battle between finance and labor the beginning and the end of the structure of the twentieth century. We are on the side of labor and against finance ... The value of labor under socialism will be determined by its value to the state, to the whole community. Labor means creating value, not haggling over things.
	Joseph Paul Goebbels	What does anti-Semitism have to do with socialism? I would put the question this way: What does the Jew have to do with socialism? Socialism has to do with labor. When did one ever see him working instead of plundering, stealing and living from the sweat of others? As socialists we are opponents of the Jews because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism.
	Ulysses S. Grant	Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
	Alexander Hamilton	It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.
	Dag Hammarskjold	It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
	Gordon B. Hinckley	There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.
	William P. Hoar	If ... our bureaucratic masters are becoming more akin to Soviet-style or Eastern European counterparts, it was rarely seen as a plus that those central schemers had wonderful intentions with their five-year plans. Such goals as "job safety," "equality," and freedom from "discrimination," depending on their definitions, may be good things for society, but they were never intended to be the business of the federal government.
	Jimmy Hoffa	Don't let any man into your cab, your home, or your heart, unless he's a friend of labor.
	Jacob G. Hornberger	Contrary to everything our rulers tell us, and everything that our schoolteachers are teaching the children of this nation, the biggest threat to the lives and well-being of the American people lies not with some foreign government. The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. And while gun ownership stands as a barrier to potential, Nazi-like behavior, the long-term solution is to dismantle, not reform, the iron fist of the welfare state and the controlled economy. This includes the end (not the reform) of the IRS, the DEA, the BATF, the SEC, the FDA, HUD, the departments of HHS, Labor, Agriculture, and Energy, and every other agency that takes money from some and gives it to others or interferes with peaceful behavior. It entails the repeal of all laws that permit such conduct. And it means the privatization of most of the bureaucrats who work for the U.S. government.
	Jacob G. Hornberger	[D]ecade after decade, through taxes and regulations, governments at all levels took ever-increasing control over people’s lives, wealth, and property. The control grew exponentially, decade after decade. The rationale was that the control was necessary -- for society, for the poor, for the nation, even for freedom itself. Americans continued living their life of the lie: they continued believing that the more control government exercised over their lives and property, the freer they became.
	David Hume	Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
	Bill Hybels	Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
	Robert G. Ingersoll	Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
	Thomas Jefferson	No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.
	Ben Johnson	I have never met a more dedicated bunch of people than I did working in the union, at every level. The work is difficult and demanding, and very few people would do it if they didn’t believe in its righteousness. However, the conviction that you know what’s best insulates you against reflecting morally on your own actions and it teaches you to begin assessing morality in terms of either the ends justifying the means, or even worse, of mere good intention justifying those means.
	James Weldon Johnson	Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
	Samuel Johnson	To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
	Samuel Johnson	Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
	Jack Kemp	Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
	Thomas Kempis	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.
	John Maynard Keynes	Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
	Matt Kibbe	The Rules for Liberty\\\\ 1) Don’t hurt people: Free people just want to be left alone, not hassled or harmed by someone else with an agenda or designs over their life and property.\\ 2) Don’t take people’s stuff: America’s founders fought to ensure property rights and our individual right to the fruits of our labors.\\ 3) Take responsibility: Liberty takes responsibility. Don’t sit around waiting for someone else to solve your problems.\\ 4) Work for it: For every action there is an equal reaction. Work hard and you’ll be rewarded.\\ 5) Mind your own business: Free people live and let live.\\ 6) Fight the power: Thanks to the Internet and the decentralization of knowledge, there are more opportunities than ever to take a stand against corrupt authority.
	Lucy Larcom	Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.
	C. S. Lewis	To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after his death --- these are wishes deeply ingrained in civilised man. Their realization is almost as necessary to our virtues as to our happiness. From their total frustration disastrous results both moral and psychological might follow.
	Abraham Lincoln	Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
	John Locke	All wealth is the product of labor.
	John Locke	[E]very Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property.
	Martin Luther	The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
	James Madison	I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic -- it is also a truth, that if industry and labour are left to take their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive, and this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out.
	James Madison	By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
	Marisa Manley	Since time immemorial, governments have claimed moral superiority. Yet they use laws to loot the productive wealth of working people and build palaces, pyramids, religious monuments, military forces, and other symbols of their power.
	Jacques Maritain	A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
	Karl Marx	The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
	Karl Marx	Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
	Karl Marx	Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.