Depend upon it, nothing can be got by fraternizing with trades unions. They are founded upon principles of brutal tyranny and monopoly. I would rather live under a Dey of Algiers than a Trades Committee.
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Letter to F. W. Cobden (16 August, 1842).
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John Morley, The Life of Richard Cobden (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905), p. 299.Richard Cobden
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The establishment of any new manufacture, of any new branch of commerce, or any new practice in agriculture, is always a speculation, from which the projector promises himself extraordinary profits. These profits sometimes are very great, and sometimes, more frequently, perhaps, they are quite otherwise; but in general they bear no regular proportion to those of other older trades in the neighbourhood. If the project succeeds, they are commonly at first very high. When the trade or practice becomes thoroughly established and well known, the competition reduces them to the level of other trades.
Adam Smith
Jack of all Trades is of no Trade.
Thomas (writer) Fuller
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
Hilaire Belloc
It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.
Terry Eagleton
Mill sought to strengthen his defence of trade unions not by denying their possible monopoly effects, but by an appeal to the principle of laisser faire itself. To prevent the formation of corporate unions was, he thought, to interfere with a right obviously included in the general rule of freedom of contract.
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