Famous quotes containing the words capital and/or controls:
“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.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“Comparatively, we can excuse any offense against the heart, but not against the imagination. The imagination knowsnothing escapes its glance from out its eyryand it controls the breast.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)