Labour Governs

Famous quotes containing the words labour and/or governs:

    The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalms 90:10.

    The Book of Common Prayer (1662)

    When the white man governs himself that is self-government; but when he governs himself, and also governs another man, that is more than self-government—that is despotism.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)