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In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers.

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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service.
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One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man’s attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentment is aroused, and the end is not gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to man’s reason can a movement succeed.
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The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him; to improve the safety and the sanitary conditions of the workshop.
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Let social busybodies and professional “public morals experts” in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.
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Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.
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The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.
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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.
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