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Calvin Coolidge: “There is just one condition on which men can secure employment and a living, nourishing, profitable wages for whatever…”

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There is just one condition on which men can secure employment and a living, nourishing, profitable wages for whatever they contribute to the enterprise, be it labor or capital, and that condition is that some one make a profit by it.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge states that employment and fair wages depend on the existence of profit, linking economic success to individual contributions.

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