 | 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. 
