“"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.”

Bk. I, ch. 3.
1840s, Past and Present (1843)

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Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian… 1795–1881

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