 | George Sewall Boutwell - 1887 - 252 sider
...the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females." In 1854, he said: "Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital...existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the support of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." In April of the same year, he said... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1887 - 438 sider
...false, and all inferonces frwm them are ground leas. Labor is prior to and independent of cipital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never...first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserve- much the higher >• t>eideration. Cunitrtl hat its right», which are a» worthy of protection... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1887 - 476 sider
...are false, and all inferences frem them are groundless. Labor is prior to and independent of ciuital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not not existed. Labor ia the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital... | |
 | Wisconsin Farmers' Institutes - 1910 - 328 sider
...groundless. They hold that labor is prior to, and independent of, capital; that, in fact, capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed — that labor can exist without capital, but that capital could never have existed without labor.... | |
 | 1887 - 436 sider
...as a free man heing fixed for life in th- condition of a hired labo er. Both these assumptions are false, and all inferences from them are groundless. Labor is prior to and independent or capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed it' labor had not first... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1888 - 718 sider
...Nor is there any such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital...capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. (First Annual Message.) The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves... | |
 | 1903 - 696 sider
...as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. Both these assumptions are false, and all inferences from them are groundless....capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." It is this emphasis upon the value of human life, this exaltation of the rights of man regardless of... | |
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - 1906 - 746 sider
...impair its efficiency without as a nation paying the penalty. For, after all, in the words of Lincoln, "capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed." I am sure it is known to all of you that many people in Great Britain believe that the factory system... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 184 sider
...embrace more than one eighth of the labor of the country." • ANNUAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS, DEC., 1861. " Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital...capital and deserves much the higher consideration." ANNUAL MESSAGE, DEC., 1861. " No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 854 sider
...as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. Both these assumptions are false, and all inferences from them are groundless....existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superio_r of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital lias its rights, which are... | |
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. 
