 | United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business - 1969 - 512 pages
...story of our industry is well told in the words of Abraham Lincoln in a message to Congress in 1861 : The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors...surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This is the just and generous and pros]*»row... | |
 | United States. Employment and Training Administration - Government publications - 1977 - 202 pages
...the one hand, nor of hirelings or slaves on the other." In the North, he continued, there was no such thing ' 'as the free hired laborer being fixed to that condition for life," for all Americans could achieve economic independence. In 1870, by way of contrast, nearly two-thirds... | |
 | Ira Berlin - History - 1993 - 830 pages
...individual could attain independent standing. "There is [no] such thing," declared Abraham Lincoln, "as the free hired laborer being fixed to that condition for life. . . . The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which... | |
 | Michael Novak - Social Science - 1984 - 316 pages
...on the one hand, nor of hirelings or slaves on the other . . . there is not, of necessity, any such thing as the free hired laborer being fixed to that condition for life. There is demonstration for saying this. Many independent men, in this assembly, doubtless a few years... | |
 | African Americans - 1990 - 988 pages
...industrious man could attain independent standing. "There is [no] such thing," declared Abraham Lincoln, "as the free hired laborer being fixed to that condition for life. . . . The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which... | |
 | Michael Novak - History - 1992 - 170 pages
...his audience at the 1859 Wisconsin State Agricultural Society: There is not, of necessity, any such thing as the free hired laborer being fixed to that condition for life. There is demonstration for saying this. Many independent men, in this assembly, doubtless a few years... | |
 | Ira Berlin - History - 1992 - 270 pages
...individual could attain independent standing. "There is [no] such thing," declared Abraham Lincoln, "as the free hired laborer being fixed to that condition for life. . . . The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which... | |
 | Julie Saville - History - 1994 - 246 pages
...hire or buy another few to labor for them," Lincoln argued that "there is not, of necessity, any such thing as the free hired laborer being fixed to that condition for life": The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to... | |
 | Steven Brint - Education - 1998 - 372 pages
...president, Abraham Lincoln ([1859] 1953) expressed the increasingly popular ideal of the "self-made man": "The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors...which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on this own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him" (pp. 478-9).... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 1995 - 188 pages
...3:478-79: Summoning the tale in many speeches Lincoln was defining self and polity when he said, "The penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile,...or land for himself; then labors on his own account for another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him." On Lincoln's climb, see Richard... | |
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The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on bis own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. 
