Thanks to all who work for me and all who work to make this country great. Here are a couple of quotes for the day.
Work as if you were to live 100 Years, Pray as if you were to die To-morrow. –Benjamin Franklin
It gives me great pleasure to pay tribute to the working men and women of America on Labor Day. This occasion brings deserved attention to those who have toiled to build our nation and to shape a prosperous life out of the dreams of early immigrants. Today we recognize the honor and value of all work and the great distinction that flows from a job well done. From those who first carved a nation out of the wilderness to those who helped cross, settle and build this country, the working people have made immeasurable contributions to the advancement of our way of life. Through their spirit, minds, and muscles, America’s workers have created a modern industrial giant. They have sustained the traditional values of family, work, and neighborhood while serving as the bulwark of American democracy and lending support to the fundamental tenets of our free enterprise system. — Ronald Reagan
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can reestablish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty. –President Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. — Henry van Dyke
God sells us all things at the price of labor. — Leonardo da Vinci
Without labor nothing prospers. — Sophocles
Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. — Adam Smith
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. — Thomas Jefferson
There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right. — Bill Cosby
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. — Menander (342 BC – 291 BC)
One of the greatest labor saving inventions of today is tomorrow. — Vincent T. Floss
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. — Martin Luther King Jr.
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living. — John D. Rockefeller
God give me work, until my life shall end. And life, until my work is done. — Epitaph of Winifred Holtby
Happy Labor Day!
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