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Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.

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.

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system.

Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce.