Believe, if you will, that there may have been faults in our industrial system, yet the fact remains that the welfare of the average man has not so far advanced under any other form of government, and that whatever evil exists will not be corrected by delegating to government, with all its weaknesses, the authority to run and control all business and to control the daily lives and activities of laboring mankind. Nor will any existing waste and extravagance of government be eliminated or appreciably diminished until the average man realizes that the burden of paying its bills will, through direct or indirect taxation, ultimately fall upon him, his children or his children's children.
Quotes about laboring (16 Quotes)
Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.
It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.
Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.
Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.
Meanwhile, spiritual submissiveness brings about the wiser use of our time, talents, and gifts as compared with our laboring diligently but conditionally to establish our own righteousness instead of the Lord's (DC 116). After all, Lucifer was willing to work very hard, but conditionally in his own way and for his own purposes. (Moses 41).
Quorum and group leaders should provide the leading voice and laboring oar in every ward and branch council regarding retention of converts.
When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
If a man has the assurance within his own heart that he is worthy, and that he is laboring to the best of his ability to do good, he can stand up under the condemnation, the criticism and the censure of those by whom he is surrounded.