On the record
We shall then have no longer, all over the earth, the competition of pauper labor with pauper labor, but only the competition of free labor with free labor.
Said by
Lysander Spooner
Source
gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “We shall then have no longer, all over the earth, the competition of pauper labor with pauper labor, but only the…”
Editor's note · Context
He envisions a future where laborers compete freely rather than being pitted against each other in poverty.
Share
More from Lysander Spooner
Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.
If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.
The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.
They cannot claim or expect that the whole people shall practise the folly of taking on trust their pretended superior knowledge, and of committing blindly into their hands all their own interests, liberties, and rights, to be disposed of…