Labor Day Quotes

When people ask me, 'Why can't labor organize the way it did in the thirties?' the answer is simple: everything we did then is now illegal.
- Thomas Geoghegan.

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
- Doug Larson

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
- H.L. Mencken

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
- Abraham Lincoln

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle

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