Abraham Lincoln Labor Quotations

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

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

Labor is the true standard of value.

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.

There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed had not labor first existed.

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us