...in 1861, President Abraham Lincoln expressed the evolving common sense of American populism: "Labor is prior to, and independent of capital. Capital is...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 —...

...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,...

...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...

...slavocracy and the debasement of labor represented by slavery. As Lincoln articulated this attitude: "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital...Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much higher consideration." Lincoln extolled "the free hired laborer" and "the prudent penniless beginner...

...the NLRA—and to the idea expressed by President Lincoln in his first Annual Message to Congress: "Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed." This period of history, in which the Reagan-Bush assumption that one side of the bargaining table should...

...labor theory holds that "labor is prior to, and independent of, capital; that, in fact, capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed — that labor can exist without capital, but that capital could never have existed without labor....

..."nobody works unless capital excited them to work." On the contrary, declared Lincoln, "capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had notarsi existed." Lincoln also rejected the Marxist notion that classes, once forged, remained barriers...