 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 541924 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Allan H. Keith - 1992 - 80 pages
...Lincoln said: "These capitalists generally act harmoniously, 63 64 and in concert, to fleece the 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 man deserves... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pages
...10, 1858.— The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 2, p. 498 (1953). 979 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... | |
 | Paul Salstrom - 1994 - 244 pages
...said, "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...capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." 27 An extreme instance of expanding self-ownership of land, tools, and profits occurred in the eighteenth... | |
 | Julia Vitullo-Martin, J. Robert Moskin - 1994 - 402 pages
...sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks." KARL MARX (Das Kapital, I, 1867) "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... | |
 | Holly Sklar - 1995 - 238 pages
...No way, that is, under the rigged rules of corporate domination. PUTTING ECONOMICS IN HUMAN RIGHTS 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... | |
 | Michael Parenti - 1996 - 300 pages
...real price, money is their nominal price only." The first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, said: "Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital...only the fruit of labor and could not have existed had not labor first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration."... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - 1996 - 208 pages
...reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 3, p. 462. Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990). 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... | |
 | John Downing Weaver - 1997 - 308 pages
...Osawatomie, Kansas, on August 31, Roosevelt touched off a lively debate with a brief, borrowed paragraph: "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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...GIRAUDOUX, (1882-1944) French author, diplomat. The President, in The Madwoman of Chaillot, act 1 (1945). 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... | |
 | Scott Tucker - 1997 - 284 pages
...Congress in 1861, President Abraham Lincoln expressed the evolving common sense of American populism: "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 supporter of capital and Earlier versions... | |
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