Labor Day Sayings
Posted by quotes on August 21, 2006
Labor Day differs in every essential from other holidays of the year in any country. All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflict and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
– Samual Gempers, founder and president of the American Federation of Labor
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
– John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1690
Without labor nothing prospers.
– Sophocles
Organized labor, if they’re doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
– Warren Beatty
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
– Anatole France
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