 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1906 - 650 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 464 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 community... | |
 | Israel Smith Clare - World history - 1906 - 468 pages
...of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and never could have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration. * * * A few men own capital, and that few avoid labor themselves, and with that capital hire or buy... | |
 | Memorial Day - 1906 - 434 pages
...truth and the country is safe. You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration. Whatever is calculated to improve the condition of the honest, struggling, laboring man, I am for that... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 326 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 community... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 328 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 community... | |
 | Henry Bryan Binns - 1907 - 428 pages
...Capital is only the fruit of Labour, and could never have existed if Labour had not first existed. Labour is the superior of Capital, and deserves much the...probably always will be, a relation between Capital and Labour producing mutual benefits. The error is in assuming that the whole Labour of the community exists... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Devotional calendars - 1907 - 410 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. A song for the builders of beauty, The rearers of temple... | |
 | Martin J. Sklar - Business & Economics - 1988 - 502 pages
...framework of Lincoln's other major proposition, that "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital .... Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." Hence, capital's rights existed on the basis of its subordination to human rights.36 It was in this... | |
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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. 
