THEODORE ROOSEVELT, PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICAN
(1911)
ON LABOR RIGHTS AND BEING CALLED A COMMUNIST
"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. 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."
"If that remark was original with me, I should be even more strongly denounced as a communist agitator than I shall be anyhow. It is Lincoln's. I am only quoting it; and that is one side; that is the side the capitalist should hear. Now, let the workingman hear his side."
ON CORPORATIONS
"The Constitution guarantees protection to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage to any corporation."
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