Quote#Freedom
Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender…
Quote byOrestes Brownson · 1803–1876
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Laboring Classes, Boston Quarterly Review, July 1840, https://archive.org/details/labouringclasses00browrich/page/11.
English (original)
Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.
— Orestes Brownson
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