 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...hired labourer. Both these assumptions are false, and all inferences from them are groundless. Labour is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labour, and could never have existed if labour had not first existed. Labour is the superior of capital,... | |
 | George Davis Herron - 1895 - 228 pages
...somehow, by the use of it, induces him to labor." Continuing, Mr. Lincoln proposed this principle : " Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and never could have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves... | |
 | George Davis Herron - 1895 - 228 pages
...somehow, by the use of it, induces him to labor." Continuing, Mr. Lincoln proposed this principle : " Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and never could have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan - 1896 - 636 pages
...la sometimes hinted at as a possible refuge from the power of the people. ln my present position I could scarcely be justified were I to omit raising...higher consideration. And mark these words of his: No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toll up from poverty; none less inclined to... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan - 1896 - 658 pages
...la sometimes hinted at as a possible refuge from the power of Che people. in my present position I could scarcely be justified were I to omit raising...have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor la the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration. And mark these words of his:... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - 1860 - 312 pages
...condition of a hired laborer. But these assumptions are false, and all inferences from them are groundless. Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 pages
...nor is there any such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital...never have existed if labor had not first existed. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that... | |
 | George Henry Shibley - 1896 - 722 pages
...Springfield December 20, 1839 (page 114 above). On three widely separated occasions he stated that " Labor is the superior of Capital and deserves much the higher consideration."* President Lincoln in a letter to his friend Elkins in Illinois in 1864 said: Lincoln's Prophecy. "Yes,... | |
 | United States. President - 1897 - 790 pages
...of a hired laborer. Both these assumptions are false, and all inferences from them are groundless. Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital...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... | |
 | United States. President - 1897 - 858 pages
...of a hired laborer. Both these assumptions are false, and all inferences from them are groundless. Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital...never have existed if labor had not first existed. I^abor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights,... | |
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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. 
