Although Lincoln was by today's standards a "moderate" Republican... he famously said, "Labor is superior to capital because it precedes capital"—nobody was wealthy until somebody made something—and was the first president both to use the word "strike" and to actually stop police and private armies from killing and beating strikers...

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Although Lincoln was by today's standards a "moderate" Republican... he famously said, "Labor is superior to capital because it precedes capital"—nobody was wealthy until somebody made something—and was the first president both to use the word "strike" and to actually stop police and private armies from killing and beating strikers..." in the context of "Thom Hartmann, Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People"—and How You Can Fight Back (2018) Introduction: The Battle to Save Democracy." to mean that wisdom is timeless.