"Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.
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More on Work Ethic
“We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.”
“Talent is important but it is not the key point.”
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More on Slavery
“Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.”
“This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.”
“The other slaves in the field never let that house slave knew - know what they were really thinking. If the house slave said, well one of these days all of us will live in the plantation, they said, uh huh. They went along with him. But if you came up to them and said, let's go, they would be gone just like that.And in, in America you have the same situation.You have the vast masses who are still slaves.”