"Few can be induced to labor exclusively..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us
More by Abraham Lincoln
“You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.”
“The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.”
“As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.”
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“The American worker is more productive than he's ever been.”
“Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms, and in hordes of hungry people, tramping the streets and seeking jobs in vain. Our workers may never see a tax bill, but they pay. They pay in deductions from wages, in increased cost of what they buy, or - as now - in broad unemployment throughout the land.”
“In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.”