labor Quotes

“The labor of some of the most respectable orders in the society is, like that of menial servants, unproductive of any value, and does not fix or realize itself in any permanent subject, or vendible commodity, which endures after that labor is past, and for which an equal quantity of labor could afterward be procured.”

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

“The experience of all ages and nations, I believe, demonstrates that the work done by slaves, though it appears to cost only their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any.”

“It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased...”