 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1897 - 800 sider
...as a free man 1ieing fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. Both these assumptions are false, and all inferences from them are groundless....the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if lalx^r had not first existed. IYalxir is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.... | |
 | United States. President - 1897 - 792 sider
...as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired lalxirer. Both these assumptions are false, and all inferences from them are groundless....independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of lalxir, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. I,abor is the superior of capital,... | |
 | 1898 - 1026 sider
...first annual message to Congress, Mr. Lincoln expresses tho same idea in different language. He said: "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor. Capital could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital,... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1899 - 1040 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....Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much tlie higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.... | |
 | James Daniel Richardson, United States. President - 1899 - 818 sider
...for life in the condition of a hired laborer. Both these assumptions are false, and all infer h enees from them are groundless. Labor is prior to and independent...labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of -capi tal, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy... | |
 | New Hampshire - 1899 - 1244 sider
...first annual message to congress, Mr. Lincoln expresses the same idea in different language. He said: "Labor is prior to. and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor. Capital could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital,... | |
 | United States. President - 1900 - 808 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....never have existed if labor had not first existed, lyabor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1900 - 186 sider
...nobody labors unless somebody else owning capital, somehow by the use of it, induces him to labor. * * * Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit 'of labor, and could never 150 have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much... | |
 | Samuel Chipman Parks - 1900 - 184 sider
...government." And he stated the relation of capital to labor with Madisonian clearness in the following words: "Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and would never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital and deserves... | |
 | 1901 - 694 sider
...themselves and under a just God cannot long retain it. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could not have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor...capital and deserves much the higher consideration. When it comes to a question between a man and a dollar, I am on the side of the man every time. He... | |
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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. 
