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"[Labor Day] is a peculiarly American holiday . . . . America recognizes no aristocracy save those who work. The badge of service is the sole requirement for admission to the ranks of our nobility." ~Calvin Coolidge
“There is no substitute for hard work.” ~Thomas A. Edison
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." ~Benjamin Franklin
“Every noble work is at first impossible.” ~Thomas Carlyle
“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” ~Henry Ford
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.” ~Saint Augustine
“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.” ~Booker T. Washington
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it should get you pretty near. ~Margaret Thatcher
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out. ~Ronald Reagan
“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.” ~Mahatma Gandhi
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” ~Thomas A. Edison
“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.” ~John Wesley
“If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.” ~Thomas Jefferson
"A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property...they are the essence of a free economy. And on that freedom all our other freedoms depend. ~Margaret Thatcher
“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.” ~Calvin Coolidge
“A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.” ~Thomas Jefferson
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