Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"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."

~ Albert Camus  

"He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread."

~ Daniel Webster  

"When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal."

~ Leland Stanford  

"The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures."

~ Luc de Clapiers  

"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."

~ Gordon B. Hinckley  

"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."

~ Lucy Larcom  

"The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us."

~ Josiah Warren  

"Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence."

~ Bill Hybels  

"Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization."

~ Daniel Webster  

"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."

~ Abraham Lincoln  

~ Adam Smith  

"Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top."

~ Booker T. Washington  

"A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil."

~ Grover Cleveland  

"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."

~ James Madison  

"No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him."

~ Thomas Jefferson