Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincolnwas the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth12 February 1809
CountryUnited States of America
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I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would like to God that such a system prevailed all over the world
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Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.
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Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration
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Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.
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Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed had not labor first existed.
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To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.
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Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us
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Labor is the true standard of value.
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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.
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There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
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The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest he must be checked.
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I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views