Who Said This: LABOR VIS-À-VIS CAPITAL?
"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." Abraham
Lincoln's First Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861.
My,
my how things have changed in the US. Can you so much as imagine a President
saying any such thing today? In an *address to Congress*?
Here
are some more quotes from Lincoln. Bush would not know how to spell, or
probably the definition, of many of those noble words:
Now
add this quote, from earlier the same year, to the quote below about Labor
vis-à-vis Capital:
"I
have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments
embodied in the Declaration of Independence." Abraham
Lincoln
Source: February 22, 1861 - Address in Independence
Hall
and while you're at
it, consider this one:
"That
I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the
truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of
religion in general, or any denomination of Christians in particular." Abraham
Lincoln
Source: July 31, 1846 - Handbill Replying to Charges of Infidelity
Source: http://tinyurl.com/yuebj3
The
thinking of the greatest Presidents and statesmen of the United States, those
people whose humanistic and enlightened vision it was that served as the
wellspring and foundation of the desire for freedom from Britain, the
Declaration of Independence and creation of the Nation and those who followed
in their Spirit, before she was derailed, was far more in line with that of the Left
Socialists than with the Capitalist and Rightists.
Doreen
Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel