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“The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.”
— Robert G. Ingersoll
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On working hours, wages, free trade, the labor question, and the relationship between property and humanity.
4 works · All topics · All works
| Work | Volume | Year |
|---|---|---|
| About Farming in Illinois To Plow is to Pray — to Plant is to Prophesy, and the Harvest Answers and Fulfills. | Vol. 1 | 1877 |
| Hard Times and the Way Out Boston, October 20, 1878. | Vol. 9 | 1878 |
| Eight Hours Must Come On the eight-hour working day. | Vol. 11 | 1890 |
| How to Reform Mankind There is no darkness but ignorance. | Vol. 4 | 1896 |