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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
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.
This is a business of love and labor.
Labor conquers all things.
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
For as labor cannot produce without the use of land the denial of the equal right to use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce.
Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power The world must follow you!
A truly American sentiment recognises the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Capital is dead labor that vampirelike lives only by sucking living labor and lives the more the more labor it suck.
Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor nor labor without capital.
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.
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.
You know not what you are capable of doing; you cannot sound the ocean of thought within you. You must labor, keep at it, and dig deep and long before you will begin to realize much. Be inactive - mourn because you were not created a giant in intellect, and you will die a fool.
There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.
DIGNITY OF LABOR indicates that all types of jobs are respected equally.
All labor has dignity.
One of the major contributions of the Protestant faith to the world is the culture of dignity of labour.