 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 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. 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
...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
...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
...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
...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
...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.... | |
 | John Downing Weaver - History - 1997 - 308 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." He was quoting Abraham Lincoln. The judiciary should be "interested primarily in human welfare, rather... | |
 | Rebecca Edwards - History - 1997 - 253 pages
...right to enjoy power, or wealth, or position, or immunity, which has not been earned." Adding that "labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration," Roosevelt noted that these words were a quotation from Abraham Lincoln. 41 Roosevelt's third-party... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 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. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, (1809-1865) US president. First Annual Message to Congress, Collected Works of Abraham... | |
 | Michael Parenti - Business & Economics - 1998 - 228 pages
...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." Lincoln's words went largely unheeded. The dominance of capital over labor remains the essence 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. 
