You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.

Labor is no disgrace.

The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.

Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.