Capitalism Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force,…

— Henry George

It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they…

— William Cowper Brann

From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor,…

— Leland Stanford

Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance.

— William Stanley Jevons

Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.

— Vladimir Lenin

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great,…

— William Graham Sumner

Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital.

— Pope Leo I

Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in…

— Abraham Lincoln