 | Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 78 pages
...SAFETY FROM VIOLENCE Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example...that his own shall be safe from violence when built. - Reply to New York Working-Men, Mar. 21, 1864, vol. X, p. 54. LAND TO BURY HIM Part with the land... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1908 - 214 pages
...industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example...that his own shall be safe from violence when built;, — Remarks to a Committee of New York Workingmen; March 24, 1864. THE world has never had a good definition... | |
 | Isaac Newton Phillips - 1910 - 138 pages
...words, than which I know of nothing wiser or better in the English language : " That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence...that his own shall be safe from violence when built." I INCOLN was certainly not without personal ambition, and yet with only his own advancement as an object... | |
 | James Ernest Boyle - North Dakota - 1910 - 430 pages
...in these clear words: "Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example...that his own shall be safe from violence when built." l The life of each person must be protected. And, finally, the peace and dignity of the State must... | |
 | Memorial Day - 1911 - 602 pages
...become rich, and hence, is just encouragement to energy and enterprise. Let not him who is housclcss pull down the house of another; but let him labor...that his own shall be safe from violence when built." Abraham Lincoln's great heart and tender sympathy daily revealed his sense of justice and mercy, in... | |
 | Anti-communist movements - 1911 - 750 pages
...is the fruit of labor; property is desirable ; is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence...encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is homeless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 394 pages
...is the fruit of labor, property is desirable, is a positive good to the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence,...that his own shall be safe from violence when built." Any one who spoke in this wise to-day would be described in many quarters as a "reactionary," probably... | |
 | Hermann Schlüter - Labor - 1913 - 248 pages
...is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence...houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - Campaign literature, 1912 - 1913 - 354 pages
...positive good in the world. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example...that his own shall be safe from violence when built." This last sentence characteristically shows Lincoln's homely, kindly common sense. His is the attitude... | |
 | Henry Anson Castle - Minnesota - 1915 - 758 pages
...is the fruit of labor ; property is desirable; is a positive good to the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence...that his own shall be safe from violence when built." No more stinging rebuke to socialism was ever spoken or written. BEGINNINGS OF A JOBBING TRADE After... | |
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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is Just encouragement to industry and enterprise. 
