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Thought For the Day: The Fruit Derived From Labor Is the Sweetest of Pleasures

Posted on August 14, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.” – Luc de Clapiers (1715-1747)

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Thought For the Day: A Truly American Sentiment Recognizes the Dignity of Labor and the Fact That Honor Lies In Honest Toil

Posted on July 26, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.” – Grover Cleveland (1837-1908)

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First Principles: We Have More Machinery of Government Than Is Necessary, Too Many Parasites Living On the Labor of the Industrious

Posted on June 14, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Ludlow, 1824

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First Principles: Labor To Keep Alive In Your Breast That Little Spark of Celestial Fire Called Conscience

Posted on March 11, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.” – George Washington (1748)

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Thought For the Day: Come To Me, All Who Labor and Are Heavy Laden and I Will Give You Rest

Posted on December 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” – Matthew 11:28

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First Principles: If We Can Prevent the Government From Wasting the Labors of the People, Under the Pretense of Taking Care of Them, They Must Become Happy

Posted on September 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.” – Thomas Jefferson (1802)

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Thought For the Day: Farmers Are the Founders of Civilization

Posted on May 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.” – Daniel Webster (1782-1852)

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Thought For the Day: The Production of Wealth Is the Result of Agreement and Its Distribution …Will Follow the Law of Its Creation

Posted on May 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.” – Leland Stanford (1824-1893)

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Thought For the Day: The Great Dialectic In Our Time…Is Between Economic Enterprise and the State

Posted on May 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.” – John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006)

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Thought For the Day:

Posted on May 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.” —Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

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