cause of either a dependent nature which prefers it, or improvidence, folly, or singular misfortune. Agricultural Address, Sept. 30, 1859, vol. V, p. 250.

MEN WORTHY OF TRUST

No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty-none less inclined to take or touch aught which they have not honestly earned.- -Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 3, 1861, vol. VII, p. 59.

SAFETY FROM VIOLENCE

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.- -Reply to New York Working-Men, Mar. 21, 1864, vol. X, p. 54.

LAND TO BURY HIM

Part with the land you have, and, my life upon it, you will never after own a spot big enough to bury you in. -Letter to John D. Johnston, Nov. 4,

1851, vol. II, p. 150.

WORK WHERE YOU ARE

If you intend to go to work, there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you cannot get along anywhere.- -Letter to John D. Johnston, Nov. 4, 1851, vol. II, p. 150.

PLACE IN HEAVEN CHEAP

You say you would almost give your place in heaven for seventy or eighty dollars. Then you value your place in heaven very cheap, for I am sure you can, with the offer I make, get the seventy or eighty dollars for four or five months' work. -Letter to

John D. Johnston, Jan. 2, 1851, vol. II, p. 145.

IMPORTANCE OF INDUSTRY

You do not very much dislike to work, and still you do not work much, merely because it does not seem to you that you could get much for it. This habit of uselessly wasting time is the whole difficulty; it is vastly important to you, and still more so to your children, that you should break the habit. It is more important to them, because they have longer to live, and can keep out of an idle habit before they are in it, easier than they can get out after they are in.Letter to John D. Johnston, Jan. 2, 1851, vol. II, p. 144.

WAGES OF LABORERS AND PRESIDENTS

An honest laborer digs coal at about seventy cents a day, while the President digs abstractions at about seventy dollars a day. The coal is clearly worth more than the abstractions, and yet what a monstrous inequality in the prices.- -Speech on Internal Improvements, June 20, 1848, vol. II, p. 37.

POSTERITY PAYS NO WAGES

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically.Temperance Address, Feb. 22, 1842, vol. I, p. 201.

INSPIRATION OF HOPE IN LABOR

Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope. The power of hope upon human exertion and happiness is wonderful. -On Slavery,

July 1, 1854, vol. II, p. 185.

SELF-INTEREST UNIVERSAL

Unless among those deficient of intellect, everybody you trade with makes something.- -Address on Negro Colonization, Aug. 14, 1862, vol. VIII, p. 7.

ADVANCEMENT THE UNIVERSAL ORDER. Advancement-improvement in condition-is the order of things in a society of equals.Fragment on Slavery, July 1, 1854, vol. II, p. 185.

CURSE OF THE SHIFTED BURDEN

As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race. -Fragment on Slavery, July 1,1854, vol.

II, p. 185.

MUST HAVE A JOB

You must make a job for the bearer of this-make a job of it with the collector and have it done. You can do it for me and you must.-Letter to James Pollock, Aug. 15, 1861, vol. VI, p. 344.

LABOR AND ITS PRODUCT

Inasmuch as most good things are produced by labor, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labor has produced them. But it has so happened, in all ages of the world, that some have labored, and others have without labor enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy subject of any good government.riff Discussion, Dec. 1, 1847, vol. I, p. 307.

"MUD-SILL" LABOR THEORY

-Tar

A Yankee who could invent a strong-handed man without a head would receive the everlasting gratitude of the "mud-sill" advocates.

-Agricultural

Address, Sept. 30, 1859, vol. V, p. 251.

WANTS TO SEE THE MONEY

We would always be easily satisfied, provided we could see the money—but whatever fee we earn at a distance, if not paid before, we have noticed, we

never hear of after the work is done. We, therefore, are growing a little sensitive on that point. -Letter to James S. Irwin, Nov. 2, 1842, vol. XI, p. 99.

SOLIDARITY OF LABOR

The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, and tongues, and kindreds. -Reply to New York Working-Men, Mar. 21, 1864, vol. X, p. 53.

CAPITALISTS' RULE OF HARMONY

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people, and now, that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel. -Speech before Illinois Legislature, Jan.

1837, vol. I, p. 24.

PRINCIPLE OF HARMONY

The same spirit says, "You toil and work and earn bread, and I'll eat it." No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle.- -Reply at Alton Debate, Oct. 15, 1858, vol. V, p. 65.