 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 392 pages
...capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that...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 •... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 464 pages
...capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that...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 themselves,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1906 - 476 pages
...capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that...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 a community... | |
 | Israel Smith Clare - World history - 1906 - 468 pages
...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 another few to labor for them." We already have alluded to the building of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 328 pages
...capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that...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 themselves,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 330 pages
...capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that...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 themselves,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Devotional calendars - 1907 - 410 pages
...capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights; nor is it denied that...between labor and capital producing mutual benefits. A song for the builders of beauty, The rearers of temple and spire; A song to the strong men of duty,... | |
 | Henry Bryan Binns - 1907 - 428 pages
...Capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that...is, and probably always will be, a relation between Capital and Labour producing mutual benefits. The error is in assuming that the whole Labour of the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1907 - 114 pages
...There is no such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. FOURTH There is, and probably always will be, a relation...between labor and capital producing mutual benefits. FIFTH ^ SEPTEMBER SIXTH This is a land where freedom of speech is guaranteed. 5 EVEN TH Workingmen... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1907 - 738 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.... | |
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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. 
