 They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society which should be familiar to all, and revered by all; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading...  Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 151by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American essays - 1908 - 940 pages
...succeeded in proving their own shallow cynicism. "The authors of that notable instrument," said Lincoln, " meant to set up a standard maxim for free society,...happiness and value of life to all people, of all color, everywhere." . It was the hope of Washington, as of some others of the great men of the Revolution,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Illinois - 1908 - 698 pages
...meant to set up a standard maxim for free society which should be familiar to all, and revered by all;J constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and...of life to all people, of all colors, everywhere." •Reads: "mean" for "intend." • Omits "respects." There again are the sentiments I have expressed... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt, Lawrence Fraser Abbott - Political science - 1910 - 314 pages
...immediately upon them. They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society which should be familiar to all — constantly looked to, constantly labored for,...augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people, everywhere. We are bound in honor to refuse to listen to those men who would make us desist from the... | |
 | 1910 - 444 pages
...which should be familiar to all — constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and, even'though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated,...augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people, everywhere.' " We are bound in honor to refuse to listen to those men who would make us desist from... | |
 | James Rudolph Garfield - Charities - 1911 - 444 pages
...immediately upon them. They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society which should be familiar to all — constantly looked to, constantly labored for,...augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people, everywhere." We are bound in honor to refuse to listen to those men who would make us desist from the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign debates - 1912 - 714 pages
...should permit. "They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society which should be familiar to all, — constantly looked to, constantly labored...of life to all people, of all colors, everywhere." There again are the sentiments I have expressed in regard to the Declaration of Independence upon a... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 436 pages
...them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances...of life to all people of all colors everywhere. The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - American essays - 1913 - 330 pages
...immediately upon them. They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society which should be familiar to all — constantly looked to, constantly labored for,...augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people, everywhere." We are bound in honor to refuse to listen to those men who would make us desist from the... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1913 - 342 pages
...They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society which should be familiar to all—constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and, even though...augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people, everywhere." We are bound in honor to refuse to listen to those men who would make us desist from the... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - Authors, American - 1913 - 566 pages
...society, which should be familiar to all and revered by all; constantly looked to, constantly laboured for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly...the happiness and value of life to all people of all colours everywhere." The war has given us a right, such as we had not before, to trust in the fidelity... | |
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