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

“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.”

“There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”

“We’ve each given the hours of our lives in dull rote jobs for other men’s profit, and have been asked to be grateful for...”

“All wealth is the product of labor”