If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

To secure to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.