 | James Abram Garfield - Campaign literature - 1881 - 98 pages
...means for popular education. Without free schools there is no such thing as affording to " every man an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life." In the present condition of our country, universal education requires the aid of the General Government.... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...condition of men, to '¡ft artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all, to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of li:e. Yielding to partial and (• mporary departures from necessity, this is the leading object of... | |
 | George B. Herbert - United States - 1884 - 422 pages
...condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuits for all, to afford all an unfettered start and a fair...plain people understand and appreciate this. It is worthy of note that while in this, the Government's hour of trial, large numbers of those in the army... | |
 | 1884 - 824 pages
...means for popular education. Without freo schools there is no such thing as affording to every man an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life. In the present condition of our country, universal education requires the aid of the General Government.... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...condition of men ; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders ; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start and a fair...plain people understand and appreciate this. It is worthy of note that, while in this the Government's hour of trial large numbers of those in the army... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 648 pages
...condition of men; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start and a fair...the Government for whose existence we contend." I think the question is fairly and properly stated by the President, that it is a struggle whether the... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - Presidents - 1888 - 694 pages
...condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuits for all, to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life,' shall tread no step backward. Penetrated and sustained by a conviction that in this contest the Union... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 564 pages
...condition of men ; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders ; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all ; to afford all an unfettered start and a...plain people understand and appreciate this. It is worthy of note, that while in this the Government's hour of trial large numbers of those in the army... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 pages
...condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all, to afford all an unfettered start and a fair...plain people understand and appreciate this. It is worthy of note that, while in this, the government's hour of trial, large numbers of those in the army... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 412 pages
...condition of man ; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders ; to clear the paths of laudable pursuits for all ; to afford all an unfettered start and a...the plain people understand and appreciate this." The Congress, which met July 4, was a noteworthy assembly. Many seats were vacant and the deliberations... | |
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On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit... 
