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Сторінка 46 - His hair is crisp and black and long his face is like the tan, His brow is wet with honest sweat, he earns whate'er he can. And looks the whole world in the face, for he owes not any man.
Сторінка 23 - Instead of the conservative motto, " A fair day's wages for a fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, " Abolition of the wage system.
Сторінка 6 - Every child between seven and fourteen years of age, and every child under .sixteen years of age who cannot read at sight and write legibly simple sentences in the English language...
Сторінка 29 - Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system.
Сторінка 41 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the , field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great \ cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the A cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field...
Сторінка 2 - Let me but do my work from day to day, In field or forest, at the desk or loom, In roaring market place or tranquil room ; Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way.
Сторінка 49 - Man owes his growth, his energy, chiefly to that striving of the will, that conflict with difficulty, which we call effort. Easy, pleasant work does not make robust minds, does not give men a consciousness of their powers, does not train them to endurance, to perseverance, to steady force of will, that force without which all other acquisitions avail nothing.
Сторінка 2 - In a country of unbounded liberty, they clamor against oppression. In a country of perfect equality, they would move heaven and earth against privilege and monopoly. In a country where property is more equally divided than anywhere else, they rend the air with the shouting of agrarian doctrines.
Сторінка 23 - No one is suffered to dp more than the average workman can do; in some trades and handicrafts no one is suffered to do more than the least skillful of his fellows can do within the hours allotted...
Сторінка 47 - There is no more sacred right of citizenship than the right to pursue unmolested a lawful employment in a lawful manner. It is nothing more nor less than the sacred right of labor.

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