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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. "
Speech and Scrap Book for Speakers - Page 54
1924 - 304 pages
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 572 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 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...
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Transactions of the Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic ...

Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry - 1869 - 576 pages
...groundless. " Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor...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...
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The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to History ..., Volume 10

Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1887 - 434 pages
...to and independent of cipitAl. (Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed it' labor had not first existed. Labor Is the superior of capital, and deserves much the hiuher consideration. Capital ha* its right*, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights."...
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The Lincoln Memorial: Album-immortelles: Original Life Pictures, with ...

Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd - 1882 - 614 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 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...
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Whither are We Drifting as a Nation?

Freeman Otis Willey - 1882 - 564 pages
...of this people on twenty-four hours' notice. Hear Lincoln again in his message to Congress in 1861: "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 much the superior, and deserves...
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Magazine of Western History, Volume 14

1891 - 800 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 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...
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Cannon's Universal Proof of Money Making

Corodon S. Cannon - 1884 - 96 pages
...labor as that, nor is there any such free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. 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 eapital, and deserves much...
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The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln

Charles Maltby - 1884 - 340 pages
...the perpetuation of African slavery ; that it is, in fact, a war upon the rights of working people. 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...
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Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield, Volume 1

James Gillespie Blaine - 1884 - 702 pages
...that condition for life." From all these theories Mr. Lincoln radically dissented, and maintained that "labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." "No men living," said he, " are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty — none...
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Report of the Committee of the Senate Upon the Relations Between ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor, Henry William Blair - 1885 - 1216 pages
...drift of your observation. As our lamented martyr President, Lincoln, said in his second message, " 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 wealth, and deserves much...
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