 | 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... | |
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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. 
