Labor Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the first Monday in September.

Here are some quotations on Labor day.

If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool – Abraham Lincoln.

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased – Adam Smith.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another – Anatole France.

The end of labor is to gain leisure – Aristotle.

Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken – Bill Dodds.

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend – Doug Larson.

It is labor indeed that puts the difference on everything – John Locke.

God sells us all things at the price of labor – Leonardo da Vinci.

Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life – Marc Chagall.

Without labor nothing prospers – Sophocles.

When people ask me, ‘Why can’t labor organize the way it did in the thirties? The answer is simple: everything we did then is now illegal – Thomas Geoghegan.