“Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.”

Source: 1850s, Letter to Henry L. Pierce (1859), p. 375
Context: The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another man's right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are both for the man and the dollar, but, in case of conflict, the man before the dollar. I remember once being much amused at seeing two partially intoxicated men engaged in a fight with their great-coats on, which fight, after a long and rather harmless contest, ended in each having fought himself out of his own coat, and into that of the other. If the two leading parties of this day are really identical with the two in the days of Jefferson and Adams, they have performed the same feat as the two drunken men.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Oct. 1, 2023. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar." by Abraham Lincoln?
Abraham Lincoln photo
Abraham Lincoln 618
16th President of the United States 1809–1865

Related quotes

Theodore Roosevelt photo

“No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

1910s, The New Nationalism (1910)
Context: No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. Every dollar received should represent a dollar's worth of service rendered — not gambling in stocks, but service rendered.
Context: No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. Every dollar received should represent a dollar's worth of service rendered — not gambling in stocks, but service rendered. The really big fortune, the swollen fortune, by the mere fact of its size acquires qualities which differentiate it in kind as well as in degree from what is possessed by men of relatively small means. Therefore, I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in another tax which is far more easily collected and far more effective — a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, properly safeguarded against evasion and increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.

Bill Haywood photo

“If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.”

Bill Haywood (1869–1928) Labor organizer

Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, page 146.

Samuel Gompers photo
Michael Parenti photo

“There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man."”

Michael Parenti (1933) American academic

Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 13, p. 222

W.E.B. Du Bois photo

“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”

Source: The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Ch. I: Of Our Spiritual Strivings

Nelson Algren photo

“A man who won't demean himself for a dollar is a phoney to my way of thinking.”

Nelson Algren (1909–1981) American novelist, short story writer

"Algren wrote in a letter in late middle age" (1960s), quoted by Richard Flanagan, 2005.
Nonfiction works

Terence V. Powderly photo

“If you owe a man a dollar, pay it; if you owe him a grudge, forget it, and always be kind.”

Terence V. Powderly (1849–1924) American mayor

[Powderly, Terence, 'The Path I Trod: The Autobiography of Terence V. Powderly, 1940, Columbia University Press, 9781163178164, https://archive.org/stream/pathitrodautobio00powdrich, 34]

Stevie Wonder photo

“He's a man with a plan,
Got a counterfeit dollar in his hand,
He's misstra know-it-all.”

Stevie Wonder (1950) American musician

He's Misstra Know-It-All
Song lyrics, Innervisions (1973)

Warren Farrell photo

“If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. xix.

Related topics