 | Avard Tennyson Fairbanks - 2002 - 184 páginas
...message to the Congress, December 1861, he wrote, "Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its... | |
 | James R. Hurtgen - 2002 - 176 páginas
...both labor and capital. Each has a fair claim upon the laws. Quoting Lincoln, Roosevelt observed that "labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." However, "capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights." In a characteristic... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 páginas
...assist in ameliorating mankind. And again: Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed...capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. If that remark was original with me, I should be even more strongly denounced as a communist agitator... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 2003 - 244 páginas
...assist in ameliorating mankind. And again: — Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed...capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. If that remark was original with me, I should be even more strongly denounced as a communist agitator... | |
 | Dimitra Doukas - 2003 - 226 páginas
...clear about his and the nation's priorities. Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed...capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. The speaker was President of the United States Abraham Lincoln, on the occasion of his first Annual... | |
 | Marjorie Kelly - 2001 - 290 páginas
...challenging the institution of slavery. He observed: "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed...superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."9 Some might argue that it is the labor of the entrepreneur that creates title to corporate... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - 1999 - 532 páginas
...imparted value to commodities, and was "prior to, and independent of, capital ... in fact, capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed." Any attempt to deprive laborers of the full value of their productions was therefore (as Wayland put... | |
 | 2003 - 260 páginas
...agrarianism. His kind of capitalism lifted labor above capital, as he told his Wisconsin auditors: "capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had notarsi existed." "Labor," he continued, "is the superior — greatly the superior of capital." He... | |
 | Timothy Lee Hulsey, Christopher J. Frost - 2004 - 172 páginas
...republic. Consider Abraham Lincoln's words: "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed...capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." So, rather than catalog all the fallout from a system that rewards richly those at the top, but merely... | |
 | Philip Yale Nicholson - 2004 - 382 páginas
...address to Congress that included this passage: "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed...capital, and deserves much the higher consideration" (quoted in Schluter, 1965, pp. 175-77). Not even Karl Marx, a journalistic advocate of the Union cause... | |
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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. 
