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If employment can be given to all the labor offering itself, prosperity necessarily follows.
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gutenberg.orgUlysses S. Grant: “If employment can be given to all the labor offering itself, prosperity necessarily follows.”
Editor's note · Context
Grant states that providing employment to all willing laborers will lead to national prosperity.
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