Poverty Is The Openmouthed Relentless

At The Beginning Of This Marvelous Era It Was Natural To Expect, And It Was Expected, That Laborsaving Inventions Would Lighten The Toil And Improve The Condition Of The Laborer; That The Enormous Increase In The Power Of Producing Wealth Would Make Real Poverty A Thing Of The Past... From Progress And Poverty, To Those Who, Seeing The Vice And Misery That Spring From The Unequal Distribution Of Wealth And Privilege, Feel The Possibility Of A Higher Social State And Would Strive For Its Attainment.

For As Labor Cannot Produce Without The Use Of Land, The Denial Of The Equal Right To The Use Of Land Is Necessarily The Denial Of The Labor To Its Own Produce.

There Are Only Three Ways By Which Any Individual Can Get Wealth — By Work, By Gift Or By Theft. And, Clearly, The Reason Why The Workers Get So Little Is That The Beggars And Thieves Get So Much.

Capital Is A Result Of Labor, And Is Used By Labor To Assist It In Further Production. Labor Is The Active And Initial Force, And Labor Is Therefore The Employer Of Capital.

There Is Danger In Reckless Change, But Greater Danger In Blind Conservatism.