 | United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business - 1969 - 512 pages
...story of our industry is well told in the words of Abraham Lincoln in a message to Congress in 1861 : The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors...awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This is the just and generous... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...fixed to that condition for life. Many independent men everywhere in these States, a few years back in their lives, were hired laborers. The prudent,...awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner... | |
 | Daniel T. Rodgers - Social Science - 2009 - 316 pages
..."There is no permanent class of hired laborers among us," Lincoln told audiences in the late 1850s. "The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors...awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner... | |
 | David Montgomery - Business & Economics - 1967 - 556 pages
...He made this remark while praising as the "just, and generous, and prosperous system" that in which the "prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors...awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner... | |
 | Ira Berlin - History - 1993 - 830 pages
...declared Abraham Lincoln, "as the free hired laborer being fixed to that condition for life. . . . The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors...awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner... | |
 | Michael Novak - Social Science - 1984 - 316 pages
...doubtless a few years ago were hired laborers. And their case is almost if not quite the general rule. The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors...awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner... | |
 | African Americans - 1990 - 988 pages
...declared Abraham Lincoln, "as the free hired laborer being fixed to that condition for life. . . . The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors...awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner... | |
 | Ira Berlin - History - 1992 - 270 pages
...declared Abraham Lincoln, "as the free hired laborer being fixed to that condition for life. . . . The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors...awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner... | |
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The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. 
