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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. "
Progressive Principles - Page 48
by Theodore Roosevelt - 1913 - 330 pages
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The Wisdom of Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt - United States - 2003 - 244 pages
...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. If that remark was original with me, I should be even more strongly denounced as a communist agitator...
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Moral Cruelty: Ameaning and the Justification of Harm

Timothy Lee Hulsey, Christopher J. Frost - Philosophy - 2004 - 172 pages
...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." So, rather than catalog all the fallout from a system that rewards richly those at the top, but merely...
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1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs-- the Election that Changed the Country

Henry Luce Professor in Free Inquiry and Expression James Chace, James Chace - Political parties - 2004 - 354 pages
...And in what seemed the ultimate betrayal to the conservative wing of the Republican Party, TR said: "Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration. ... I wish to see labor organizations powerful." He also said that, like the big corporations, the...
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Labor's Story in the United States

Philip Yale Nicholson - Business & Economics - 2004 - 382 pages
...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" (quoted in Schluter, 1965, pp. 175-77). Not even Karl Marx, a journalistic advocate of the Union cause...
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The Language of Experience: Literate Practices and Social Change

Gwen Gorzelsky - Social Science - 2005 - 268 pages
...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. By quoting one of America's most famous and respected (and, notably, Republican) presidents, the masthead...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...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...are as worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that there is, and probably always will be, a relation between labor and capital producing...
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A Thinking Reed

Barry Jones - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 606 pages
...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...are as worthy of protection as any other rights.' I soon read that Britain had an alternative radical tradition which long preceded Marxism: during the...
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Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America

Mark Lloyd - Political Science - 2010 - 352 pages
...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." 4 With the formation of both telegraph and railroad lobbying interests able to secure substantial advantages...
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Remapping the Humanities: Identity, Community, Memory, (post)modernity, Volume 1

Mary Garrett, Heidi Gottfried, Sandra F. VanBurkleo - Art - 2008 - 280 pages
...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. 's By quoting one of America's most famous and respected (and, notably, Republican) presidents, the...
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

James W. Loewen - Education - 2007 - 464 pages
...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. — ABRAHAM LINCOLN1 / had once believed that we were all masters of our fate — that we could mold...
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