Edmund Ruffin Quotes

It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the expenses of living, very many, even on the ordinary laboring class, are remarkable for indolence, and work no more than compelled by necessity.

Edmund Ruffin

War, Class, Ordinary

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Edmund Ruffin

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Born: January 5, 1794
Died: June 17, 1865
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