 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 394 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 much...benefits. The error is in assuming that the whole labor of the community exists within that relation. A few men own capital, and that few avoid labor them selves,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 410 pages
...groundless. 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...is, and probably always will be, a relation between capital and labor producing mutual benefits. The error is in assuming that the whole labor of community... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 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...is, and probably always will be, a relation between labour and capital, producing mutual benefits. The error is in assuming that the whole labour of the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 280 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...is, and probably always will be, a relation between labour and capital, producing mutual benefits. The error is in assuming that the whole labour of the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 782 pages
...fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superkjr of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration....is, and probably always will be, a relation between capital and labor, producing mutual benefits. The error is in assuming that the whole labor of community... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 854 pages
...existed. Labor is the superio_r of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital lias its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any...is, and probably always will be, a relation between capital and labor, producing mutual benefits. The error is in assuming that the whole labor of community... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 444 pages
...Hence they hold that labor is the superior — greatly the superior — of capital. They do not deny that there is, and probably always will be, a relation between labor and capital. The error, as they hold, is in assuming that the whole labor of the world exists within that relation.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 268 pages
...labour and capital, producing mutual benefits. The error is in assuming that the whole labour of the community exists within that relation. A few men own capital, and that few avoid labour themselves, and with their capital hire or buy another few to labour for them. A large majority... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 pages
...Hence they hold that labor is the superior — greatly the superior — of capital. They do not deny that there is, and probably always will be, a relation between labor and capital. The error, as they hold, is in assuming that the whole labor of the world exists within that relation.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 184 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 much the higher consideration." ANNUAL MESSAGE, DEC., 1861. " No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from... | |
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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. 
