 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 574 pages
...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...higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are a-5 worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that there is, and probably always will... | |
 | Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry - Industrial arts - 1869 - 576 pages
...comprehended the whole subject in that one sentence, — " Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." This being the case, how necessary it is to train the minds of the young in such a way that they shall... | |
 | Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd - 1882 - 614 pages
...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...is, and probably always will be, a relation between labor and capital, producing mutual benefits. The error is in assuming that the whole labor of a community... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 800 pages
...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...is, and probably always will be, a relation, between labor and capital, producing mutual benefits. The error is in assuming that the whole labor of community... | |
 | Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 pages
...deserves much the highest consideration. Capital has its rights which are as worthy of protectection as any other rights. Nor is it denied, that there...always will be a relation between capital and labor, prodxicing mutual benefits. The error is in assuming that the whole1 labor of a community exists within... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - United States - 1884 - 702 pages
...that condition for life." From all these theories Mr. Lincoln radically dissented, and maintained that "labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." "No men living," said he, " are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty — none... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...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...is, and probably always will be, a relation between Labor and Capital, producing mutual benefits. The error is in assuming that the whole Labor of the... | |
 | 1887 - 436 pages
...or capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed it' labor had not first existed. Labor Is the superior of capital, and deserves...are as worthy of protection as any other rights." He s id a few men possess capital, and with their capital hire another tew to labor for them, but a... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...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. (First Annual Message.) The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 pages
...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...is, and probably always will be, a relation between labor and capital, producing mutual benefits. The error is in assuming that the whole labor of the... | |
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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. 
