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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.

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The working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I’ll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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The right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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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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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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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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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 trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers… It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
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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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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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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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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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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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