 | Robert Elliott Speer - 1924 - 456 страници
...right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females." In 1854 he said, " 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 support of capital... | |
 | 1910 - 620 страници
...places to'day, the thought is inevitable that the greatest need of our country is another Lincoin. "Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruits of labor, and could not have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of... | |
 | Margot Asquith - 1927 - 266 страници
...Abraham Lincoln rightly diagnosed the position when he said in one of his Messages to Congress: " Labour is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labour, and could never have existed if labour had not existed first. Capital has rights which are... | |
 | 1861 - 672 страници
...snch thing as a free man being fixed s. »ecbr. i'or life in the condition of a hired laborer. Both of these assumptions are "*'• false, and all inferences from them are groundless. Labor is prior to and ^dependent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could have never existed if labor had... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Immigration - 1917 - 620 страници
...brief attention. It is the effort to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above, labor. * * * Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never nave existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deeerv« much the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Labor - 1934 - 74 страници
...nobody labors unless somebody else owning capital, somehow by the use of it, induces him to labor. Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could not have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much... | |
 | 1910 - 1144 страници
...his duty to improve not only his own condition but to assist in ameliorating mankind." And again : " Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital ; capital...only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed but for labor. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1935 - 478 страници
...nobody labors unless somebody else owning capital, somehow by the use of it, induces him to labor. Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could not have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much... | |
 | 1913 - 480 страници
...both the man and the dollar ; but in case of conflict we are for the man before the dollar. * • * Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if laboi; had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1935 - 586 страници
...somebody else owning capital, somehow by the use of it, induces him to labor. Labor is prior to aud independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of Labor and could nut have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor Is the superior of capital and deserves much... | |
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Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit oflahor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. 
