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.
Источник: http://istprof.ru/1891.html
Источник: Abraham Lincoln. First Annual Message http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29502 — December 3, 1861
Авраам Линкольн цитаты
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Вариант: Америка никогда не падёт от внешнего вторжения; если мы оступимся и лишимся свободы, это произойдёт лишь по нашей вине.
„Я отправляюсь на встречу. Мне в этом лице идти?“
После того, как Стивен Дуглас во время дебатов назвал Авраама Линкольна двуличным.
I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races; that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say, in addition to this, that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And in as much as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.
дебаты со Стивеном А. Дугласом в 1858 году
Источник: Ричард Докинз, «Бог как иллюзия» (2006) // пер. с англ. Н. Смелковой. — М: КоЛибри (Иностранка), 2008. — гл. 7.
Источник: The writings of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 4, Constitutional edition, the Lincoln-Douglas debates II, Lincoln and Douglas fourth joint debate, at Charleston http://www.classic-literature.co.uk/american-authors/19th-century/abraham-lincoln/the-writings-of-abraham-lincoln-04/, September 18, 1858. — P. 1.
Обращение при вступлении в должность президента, 4 марта 1861 г.
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I see the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned. An era of corruption will follow and the money power of the country, will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people. Until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
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в том же году в США началась Гражданская война