2015 September 18
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"A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition elevated but one degree above that of a chattel slave. He may live; but he can live only as the servant of others; compelled to perform such labor, and to perform it at such prices, as they may see fit to dictate." |
"Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit." |
"No scheme which has ever been devised by them has ever made a collapsed boom go up again." |
2015 September 17
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"There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them." |
"The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state." |
"The monarchy is a labor intensive industry." |
2015 September 16
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"Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor." |
"The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor." |
"Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity." |
2015 September 15
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"Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital." |
"All wealth is the product of labor." |
"Without labor nothing prospers." |
2015 September 14
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"Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts." |
"Honest labor bears a lovely face." |
"Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself." |
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