We have never made a gain, in civil rights, without pressure.
There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal than this race for profit, or competition.
There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man’s making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.
The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.
The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.
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.
Medicine is for healing, not for profit.
Let us drink, dear friends, let us drink; fleeting time in vites us to it. Let us profit by life as much as we can.[Buvons, chers amis, buvons: Le temps qui fuit nous y convie ; Profitons de la vie Autant que nous pouvons.]
Gain may be temporary and uncertain, but ever while you live, Expence is constant and certain; and ’tis easier to build two Chimnies than to keep one in Fuel.
