Doing For People What They Can And Ought To Do For Themselves Is A Dangerous Experiment.

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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous
experiment. In the last analysis the welfare of the workers depends on their
own private initiative.
-- Samuel Gompers, 1915 President, American Federation of Labor (1886-1924)

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