A Story of the Builders of Democracy(1919) TO MY DEAR FRIEND AND COMRADE, ALEXANDER GROSSET, I DEDICATE THIS BOOK IN TOKEN OF MY ESTEEM; Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.--ABRAHAM LINCOLN. March 21, 1864.