 | Michael Novak - Social Science - 1984 - 316 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. — ABRAHAM LINCOLN, l86l' Many anti-American cartoons... | |
 | Michael Kazin - Business & Economics - 1989 - 356 pages
...statement, "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," was a commonplace in the campaign rhetoric of his day. What made California workers unique was their... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Paul McClelland Angle, Earl Schenck Miers - United States - 1992 - 692 pages
...existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the 452 higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which...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... | |
 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 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. President ABRAHAM LINCOLN, annual message to Congress, December 3, 1861.— The Collected Works of... | |
 | Julia Vitullo-Martin, J. Robert Moskin - Business & Economics - 1994 - 402 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." ABRAHAM LINCOLN (Message to Congress, December 3, 1861) CAPITALISM "It is now generally accepted that... | |
 | Paul Salstrom - Business & Economics - 1994 - 244 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." 27 An extreme instance of expanding self-ownership of land, tools, and profits occurred in the eighteenth... | |
 | Holly Sklar - Business & Economics - 1995 - 238 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. President Abraham Lincoln, Message to Congress, December 3, 1861. The time has come for us to civilize... | |
 | Michael Parenti - History - 1996 - 300 pages
...independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could not have existed had not labor first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration." All of humanity can be categorized into three groups. Group A consists of that tiny portion of people... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 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. "Annual Message to Congress," December 3, 1861, reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v.... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 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. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, (1809-1865) US president. First Annual Message to Congress, Collected Works of Abraham... | |
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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. 
