The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of special privilege of every kind. The slave owners justified slavery as protecting the slaves.
Henry GeorgeThe man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.
Henry GeorgeIt is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
Henry GeorgeHe who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to human life higher elevation or greater fullness - he is, in the larger meaning of the words, a " producer," a " working man," a " laborer," and is honestly earning honest wages.
Henry George