“When our people were fed out of the common store, and laboured jointly together, glad was he could slip from his labour, or slumber over his taske he cared not how, nay, the most honest among them would hardly take so much true paines in a weeke, as now for themselves they will doe in a day: neither cared they for the increase, presuming that howsoever the harvest prospered, the generall store must maintaine them, so that wee reaped not so much Corne from the labours of thirtie, as now three or foure doe provide for themselves.” PeopleDoeTogetherThreeCommonHonestIncreaseStoresGladLabourFedsSlipsHarvestSlumberPainePresuming Book:Generall Historie of Virginia Vol 1: New England & the Summer Isles Source: Generall Historie of Virginia Vol 1: New England & the Summer Isles
“You must obey this now for a law, that he that will not work shall not eat (except by sickness he be disabled). For the labors of thirty or forty honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintain a hundred and fifty idle loiterers.” MenLawHonestHundredLabourIdleConsumedDisabledIndustrious Book:Generall Historie of Virginia Vol 1: New England & the Summer Isles Source: Generall Historie of Virginia Vol 1: New England & the Summer Isles
“Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly grow rich.” IfsMenMayHandsGrowsRichLandMastersEvery ManLabourOwners Author:John Smith
