 | Charles Grinnell Cleaver - 1976 - 314 trang
...threat to the free workers' economic opportunity. Speaking before some shoemakers on strike, he said, I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish the humblest man an equal chance to get... | |
 | James A. Reichley - 2010 - 500 trang
...persuade voters of all classes that they had tangible stakes in the prevailing social and economic system. "I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich," Lincoln told striking shoe workers in New Haven in 1859. "It would probably do more harm than good.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - 1982 - 778 trang
...THUS BY EXAMPLE ASSURING THAT HIS OWN SHALL BE SAFE FROM VIOLENCE... I TAKE IT THAT IT IS BEST FOR AiL TO LEAVE EACH MAN FREE TO ACQUIRE PROPERTY AS FAST AS HE CAN. SOME WILL GET WEALTHY. I DON'I BELIEVE IN A LAW TO PREVENT A MAN FROM GETTING RICH: IT WOULD DO BORE HARM THAN ISN'T THE ABOVE... | |
 | John P. Diggins - 1986 - 430 trang
...profits result from hard work: What is the true condition of the laborer? I take it that it is best to leave each man free to acquire property as fast...from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we don't propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance... | |
 | Abram Lincoln Harris - 1989 - 550 trang
...business. Speaking at New Haven at the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln said: "I take it that it is best to leave each man free to acquire property as fast...he can. Some will get wealthy. I don't believe in any law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we don't propose... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1992 - 564 trang
...most of their capital gains ahead of them. Abraham Lincoln said in a speech more than 130 years ago: "I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. We wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everyone else. When one starts poor,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - 1992 - 460 trang
...most of their capital gains ahead of them. Abraham Lincoln said in a speech more than 130 yean ago: 1 don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. We wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everyone else. When one starts poor,... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 trang
...Inscription on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC See also No. 230. 1633 I take it that it is best for all to leave each man...from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, speech at New Haven, Connecticut, March 6, I860.— The Collected Works of Abraham... | |
 | G. S. Boritt - 1994 - 418 trang
...its leading economist, Henry Carey. Since Lincoln saw no inherent problem, he saw no need for laws "to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good."8 The self-made man that Lincoln admired was not the business tycoon (who in time came to usurp... | |
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I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. 
