penter's Hall and Benjamin Franklin? Do you remember Virginia and George Washington? Do you remember what the liberty we have has cost, and are you willing, because of fashion, because of ease, because of social enjoyment- are you willing to let the Republic get into the rapids simply because there are not strong men straining at the oars and keeping us back in the mid-stream of safety? Stewart L. Woodford. Every true lover of his country may help to render liberty more secure by taking pains through his words and his deeds to impart to other citizens strength of noble desires and steadiness of will. Noble ideas of citizenship and its duties, wherever expressed, strengthen the will of all patriots, and noble. deeds are more eloquent than mere words. Let us see to it that we live up to the level of our own best thinking, in our social and political relations as well as in our private life. The riches of the Commonwealth, Are free, strong minds, and hearts of health; - John G. Whittier. LABOR. Define Labor. Labor is toil, or work; manual labor is work done with the hands; mental labor is work done with the brain; skilled labor is that which requires training, experience, and special knowledge for its performance. Honor and shame from no condition rise; Under our form of government the value of labor as an element of national prosperity should be distinctly recognized, and the welfare of the laboring man should be regarded as especially entitled to legislative care. · Grover Cleveland. Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles. William E. Channing. Every man, rich or poor, who works and saves is, so far, the friend of his kind, and every man, rich or poor, who is idle, improvident, or wasteful, is, so far, the foe of his kind. -E. Benjamin Andrews. Mental labor manifests itself in a different way from physi cal labor. It is occupied in investigation and discovery. It seeks to find out the laws of nature which make physical labor effective, and to discover new ways in which they may be utilized. It invents, i.e. devises, instruments of production, without which physical labor could accomplish but little. It oversees and superintends, without which physical labor would be blind and inefficient. It educates, legislates, and governs. It is, in a word, the precedent and condition of any extensive effective physical labor. Edmund J. James. No work that God sets a man to do, no work to which God has especially adapted a man's powers, can properly be called either menial or mean. The man who blacks your boots and blacks them well, and who engages in that variety of labor because he can do it better than he can do anything else, may have, if he choose, just as sound and true a manhood as you have, not only after he gets through the work of his life, but now, with your boots in one hand and your shilling in the other. -Josiah G. Holland. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade, A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. - Oliver Goldsmith. Why should we labor? Labor is the basis of individual well-being, of public prosperity, and of all progress. It is the |