 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 408 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... | |
 | Frank P. King - Political Science - 1997 - 260 pages
...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 chance, in the race of life.... This is the leading object of the government for whose existence we contend.... This is the patriotic... | |
 | Gary L. McDowell, L. Sharon Noble, Sharon L. Noble - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 350 pages
...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 chance, in the race of life.34 Perhaps the conclusion to be drawn is that the Jeffersonian concept and structure of rights... | |
 | Luke Mancuso - History - 1997 - 180 pages
...form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men ... to afford an unfettered start, and a fair chance in the race of life" (LincolnV, 53). The unpublished introduction to the 1867 Leaves articulated Whitman's program for the... | |
 | Hugh Tulloch - History - 1999 - 276 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 chance, in the race of life.19 And this spirit of enterprise embraced the military as well as the civilian. Unlike the Confederate... | |
 | George Anastaplo - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 392 pages
...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 chance, in the race of life.508 He immediately adds, in recognition of the compromises that had had to be made in 1776 and... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 580 pages
...world that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men ... to afford all an unfettered start, and a fair chance in the race of life." Lincoln, in a special 4 July speech to the Congress, 1 86 1 , reminds that "Our popular government... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 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...of the Government for whose existence we contend. Lincoln is constantly refining and perfecting the articulation of that "central idea" that will take... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 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...of the government for whose existence we contend. . It was with the deepest regret that the executive found the duty of employing the war power in defense... | |
 | Russell Frank Weigley - History - 2000 - 662 pages
...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...leading object of the government for whose existence we contend.64 When Congress reassembled in December the President reiterated his view "that the insurrection... | |
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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... 
