| Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...to propose to itself, is, how it can best apply that quantity of labor which it is able to perform? Labor is the great producer of wealth; it moves all...not only in using the machinery, but in making it. Now, with respect to the quantity of labor, as we all know, different nations arc differently circumstanced.... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...and if we ourselves are not absolutely in the latter class, we are still, most fortunately, very near it. I cannot find that we have those idle hands, of...committee speaks. The price of labor is a conclusive and un298 answerable refutation of that idea; it is known to be higher with us than in any other civilized... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1835 - 1166 pages
...and if we ourselves are not absolutely in the latter class, we are still, most fortunately, very near it. I cannot find that we have those idle hands, of...that idea; it is known to be higher with us than in anv other civilized state, and this is the greatest of all proofs of general happiness. Labor in this... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1848 - 514 pages
...to propose to itself, IF, how it can best apply that quantity of labor which it is able to perform? Labor is the great producer of wealth; it moves all...machinery to its aid, it is still employed not only m using the machinery, but in making it. Now, with respect to the quantity of labor, as we all know,... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 572 pages
...to propose to itself, is, how it can best apply that quantity of labor which it is able to perform. Labor is the great producer of wealth ; it moves all...employed, not only in using the machinery, but in making h. Now, with respect to the quantity of labor, as we all know, different nations are differently circumstanced.... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 574 pages
...to propose to itself, is, how it can best apply that quantity of labor which it is able to perform. Labor is the great producer of wealth ; it moves all...not only in using the machinery, but in making it. Now, with respect to the quantity of labor, as we all know, different nations are differently circumstanced.... | |
| Joseph Gales - United States - 1824 - 872 pages
...to propose to itself, is, how it can best apply that quantity of labor which it is able to perform ? Labor is the great producer of wealth ; it moves all...not only in using the machinery, but in making it. Now, with respect to the •quantity of labor, as we all know, different nations are differently circumstanced.... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1860 - 578 pages
...and if we ourselves are not absolutely in the latter class, we are still most fortunately very near it. I cannot find that we have those idle hands, of...of that idea; it is known to be higher with us than iu any other civilized state, and this is the greatest of all proofs of general happiness. Labor in... | |
| Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1879 - 780 pages
...to propose to itself, is, how it can best apply that quantity of labor which it is able to perform. Labor is the great producer of wealth ; it moves all...not only in using the machinery, but in making it. Now, with respect to the quantity of labor, as we all know, different nations are differently circumstanced.... | |
| Daniel Webster - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1886 - 246 pages
...to propose to itself, is, how it can best apply that quantity of labor which it is able to perform. Labor is the great producer of wealth ; it moves,...not only in using the machinery, but in making it. Now with respect to the quantity of labor, nations are differently circumstanced. Some need, more than... | |
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