We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

A man who has no office to go to -- I don't care who he is -- is a trial of which you can have no conception.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.