 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1900 - 186 pages
...condition of men, lift artificial burdens from all shoulders and clear the paths of laudable pursuits 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 which we contend. 70 (August 22, 1864, Speech to an... | |
 | William Alfred Peffer - Philippines - 1900 - 168 pages
...condition of men; to lift artiAMERICANISM AOT> THE PHILIPPINES. 107 ficial weights from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start nnd a fair chance in the race of life. Yielding to partial and temporary departures, from necessity,... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 760 pages
...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...of the government for whose existence we contend. government's hour of trial, large numbers of those in the army and navy, who had been favored with... | |
 | Bp. Samuel Fallows, Samuel Fallows - President - 1901 - 550 pages
...of men, lift artificial burdens from all shoulders and clear the paths of laudable pursuits for aJI, 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." MR. ABNER McKINLEY Many... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all, to...appreciate this. It is worthy of note that while in this, the Government's hour of trial, large numbers of those in the army and navy who have been favored... | |
 | John George Nicolay - Presidents - 1902 - 604 pages
...leading object is to elevate the condition of men; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders ; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to...unfettered start, and a fair chance in the race of life. ... I am most happy to believe that the plain people understand and appreciate this. It is worthy of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 pages
...leading object is to elevate the condition of men—to lift artificial weights from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to...appreciate this. It is worthy of note that while in this, the government's hour of trial, large numbers of those in the army and navy who have been favored... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 pages
...leading object is to elevate the condition of men — to lift artificial weights from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to...appreciate this. It is worthy of note that while in this, the government's hour of trial, large numbers of those in the army and navy who have been favored... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 408 pages
...leading object it is to elevate the condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all, to...appreciate this. It is worthy of note that while in this, the Government's hour of trial, large numbers of those in the army and navy who have been favored... | |
 | 1920 - 548 pages
...to elevate the condition of men, t'i lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the pttlis of laudable pursuit for all, to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life." This, in substance, is the meaning of the Declaration of Independence where it asserts that "all men... | |
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This is essentially a people's contest. 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... 
