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"The poor despise labor when performed by slaves."
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"There is no competition in work. Whoever loves to labour does so as grace of life."
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"Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever."
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"When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself."
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"Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure."
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"We have no need for genius - genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are willing to give up the ghost and put on flesh..."
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"Work without love is slavery."
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"When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less."
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"Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth."
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"Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?"
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"There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right."
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"I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice."
Business
"Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes."
Nature
"Slavery discourages arts and manufactures."
Society
"The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind."
Mankind
"Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community."
Government
"In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people."
Power
"Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss."
Happiness
"There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint."
Man
"A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings."
Experience
"As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union."
Strength
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