Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition elevated but one degree above that of a chattel slave. He may live; but he can live only as the servant of others; compelled to perform such labor, and to perform it at such prices, as they may see fit to dictate."

~ Lysander Spooner  

"Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit."

~ Robert Hemphill  

"No scheme which has ever been devised by them
has ever made a collapsed boom go up again."

~ William Graham Sumner  

"There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them."

~ William Tecumseh Sherman  

"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."

~ John Kenneth Galbraith  

"The monarchy is a labor intensive industry."

~ Harold Wilson  

"Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor."

~ Ulysses S. Grant  

"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."

~ William Cobbett  

"Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity."

~ William Howard Taft  

"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  

"All wealth is the product of labor."

~ John Locke  

"Without labor nothing prospers."

~ Sophocles  

"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."

~ Mary Ellen Chase  

"Honest labor bears a lovely face."

~ Thomas Dekker  

"Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself."

~ William Ellery Channing