Best 40 quotes in «labor day quotes» category

And that John F. Kennedy uttered the first variation of "ask not what your country can do for you" in Detroit on Labor Day in 1960. So Detroit was really central to Democratic politics United States. Every Democratic candidate would start their fall campaigns in Cadillac Square.

A mind always employed is always happy.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.

He who labors diligently need never despair.

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

I pledge to support the American workforce by wearing only American designers: Calvin Klein between Memorial Day and Labor Day, Donna Karan the rest of the year. Unless I wake up and the day is screaming for me to put on a bikini for my fellow Americans. Country first.

Every day should be Labor Day. We have to fight for the basic proposition that apprenticeship is a wonderful ticket to the middle class. When we're fighting for things like paid leave, America is the only industrialized nation on the planet that doesn't have some form of paid leave - these are not bold ideas elsewhere in the world.

It's against the law to go out on Sunday from the end of June until Labor Day. It forces the fishermen to spend some time with their families.

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.

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.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work.

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

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.

The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.

When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

May Day is not an ordinary day because it is a day that cherishes the extraordinary people, the workers!

If suddenly the whole workers of the whole world disappear then the whole world will stop! Let us all realise this and let us celebrate the workers - these great people who make our world move!

War, on the other hand, was the result of failure; failure of diplomacy, failure of intelligence, failure to prepare, failure to act decisively when appropriate action became apparent, failure to call a bluff and failure to prevent open conflict which resulted in the decimation of a generation of high-principled young men and women.

No one but love can fuel the diligent work that awaits you.

Organized labor is organized to take control of an asset away from its rightful owners without paying for it. Organized labor is organization of property by those who don't own it. Organized labor, by driving up the costs of production through coercive means, destroys industries. Organized labor is piracy without the boats and eye patches. Why would anybody want to celebrate organized labor?

Today, in the May Day, find a worker and shake his hand with gratitude! Without workers, no civilisation could be built!