American Labor

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or labor:

“The American ideal is youth—handsome, empty youth.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)

“Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)