Abraham Lincoln Labor Quotations

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.

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

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

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

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

Labor is the true standard of value.

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

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

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

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