Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.
Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Lincoln's First Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name - liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names - liberty and tyranny. If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.