| Martha Rainbolt, Janet Fleetwood - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1983 - 370 pages
...Carnegie would respond. 3. Consider the following statement by Abraham Lincoln: "That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence...let him labor diligently and build one for himself." Do Carnegie and Lincoln justify wealth for the same reasons? Do you see any difference in their attitudes?... | |
| Martin Edelman - Law - 1984 - 416 pages
...Lincoln, "shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprize. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of...that his own shall be safe from violence when built." 2S Lincoln, the former Whig, supported policies aiding the business community. But his belief in equal... | |
| Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprize. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of...that his own shall be safe from violence when built. President ABRAHAM LINCOLN, reply to New York Workingmen's Democratic Republican Association, March... | |
| Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...bk. t, dt. 6(1862). 4 Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work 16 w , ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-65), US president. Speech, 21 March 1 864, in reply lo committee from the New... | |
| Bob Phillips - Quotations, English - 1993 - 372 pages
...the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it 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. Abraham Lincoln No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. Ralph... | |
| Peter W. Schramm - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 204 pages
...rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprize. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of...that his own shall be safe from violence when built. (Abraham Lincoln, March 2 1 , 1864) There is no room in this equation for governmental redistribution... | |
| Carl Sandburg - Fiction - 1996 - 324 pages
...family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations and tongues and kindreds. "Let not him who is houseless pull down the house...that his own shall be safe from violence when built." Lincoln? did he gather the feel of the American dream and see its kindred over the earth? "As labor... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 pages
...Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 7, p. 259. Rutgers University Press ( 1953, 1990). That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. "Reply to New York Workingmen's Democratic Republican Association," March 21, 1864, reprinted in Collected... | |
| Jay Monaghan - History - 1997 - 538 pages
...socialist. To recognize labor as a fixed status like slavery was abhorrent to him. "That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise." Lincoln had said and resaid this all his life.20 Lincoln replied to the International Council through... | |
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