 Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a positive good in the •world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the...  Abraham Lincoln, the Lawyer-statesman - Page 201by John Thomas Richards - 1916 - 260 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - 1982 - 778 pages
...enterprise. Not let him who is homeless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently to build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence. I take it that it is best for al! to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some... | |
 | Martha Rainbolt, Janet Fleetwood - 1983 - 370 pages
...rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself." Do Carnegie and Lincoln justify wealth for the same reasons?... | |
 | Martin Edelman - 1984 - 416 pages
...Lincoln, "shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprize. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...dramatist, novelist. Bienvenu Myricl, ihe bishop of Digne, in les Miserables, pl. 1. bk. t, dt. 6(1862). 4 Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of...that his own shall be safe from violence when built. ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-65), US president. Speech, 21 March 1 864, in reply lo committee from the New... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pages
...rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprize. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from... | |
 | Mike Szilagyi, Miklós Szilágyi - 1993 - 260 pages
...your fellow citizen yourself, how can you expect the government to do it for you? As Lincoln said, "Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another." Rich people shouldn't be our enemies. They pay taxes and create jobs by investing their money. They... | |
 | Peter W. Schramm - 1994 - 204 pages
...rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprize. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - 1996 - 324 pages
...family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations and tongues and kindreds. "Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - 1996 - 208 pages
...reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 7, p. 260. Rutgers University Press ( 1953, 1990). Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from... | |
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