...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...capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. "Annual Message to Congress," December 3, 1861, reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v....

...real price, money is their nominal price only." The first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, said: "Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is 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...

...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...capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." He was quoting Abraham Lincoln. The judiciary should be "interested primarily in human welfare, rather...

...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...capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, (1809-1865) US president. First Annual Message to Congress, Collected Works of Abraham...

...Congress in 1861, President Abraham Lincoln expressed the evolving common sense of American populism: "Labor is prior to, and independent of capital. Capital...existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the supporter of capital and Earlier versions published in Cay Community News, January 1997, and Peace...

...right to enjoy power, or wealth, or position, or immunity, which has not been earned." Adding that "labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration," Roosevelt noted that these words were a quotation from Abraham Lincoln. 41 Roosevelt's third-party...

...too, was a common belief in i86os America. It was Lincoln, not Karl Marx, who said that "capital is the fruit of labor and could never have existed if...had not first existed . . . labor is the superior — greatly the superior — of capital."32 Finally, from the nation's corpus of civic teachings —...

...labor was noted years ago by a Republican president. In a message to Congress, Abraham Lincoln stated: "Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is 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...

...admiration and esteem with which Marx regarded him. In that message Lincoln had declared that "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,...

...nation from being added to that map I showed you of the Pacific Northwest Abraham Lincoln once said: Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital...never have existed if labor had not first existed. As you make your decision, please help us keep our good paying labor jobs. Thank You. Tom Isle Great...