Poverty is the open mouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.
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What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.Henry George
There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
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He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to human life higher elevation or greater fullness he is, in the larger meaning of the words, a ' producer,' a ' working man,' a ' laborer,' and is honestly earning honest wages.
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Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.
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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.
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