The Laborer Can Strike

I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to!  I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.

-- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), 16th President of the United States, speech at Hartford, Connecticut (5 March 1860), Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 4, page 7, h/t Steve Inskeep @NPRinskeep