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Calvin McKeever
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“Our merchants and master-manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.”
— Jun 15, 2025 06:30PM
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Calvin McKeever
is on page 247 of 544
“Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate the differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favour of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favour of the masters”
— Jun 21, 2025 07:40AM
Calvin McKeever
is on page 190 of 544
“Servants, labourers, and workmen of different kinds, make up the far greater part of every great political society… No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”
— Jun 12, 2025 07:35PM
