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"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."

"A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."

"Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man."

"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."
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"The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none."

"The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years."

"The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done."

"The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account."

"It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers."

"In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion."

"I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer."

"The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity."
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