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"It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift."
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"That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth."
"Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?"
"We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth."
"Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds."
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"A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness."
"Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one."
"I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property."
"The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live."
"We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men."
"The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house."
"Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work."
"Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life."
"Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society."
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