 | John H. Schaar - Political Science - 1981 - 372 pages
...was . . . something in that Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. .... | |
 | Russell Frank Weigley, Nicholas B. Wainwright, Edwin Wolf - History - 1982 - 870 pages
...land; but something in that Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance.57... | |
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 | United States - 1958 - 1780 pages
...which Lincoln said, it 'jcmt "liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all 'js world. for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in te time the weights would be lifted from the shoulders of all men, ttrtthat all should have an equal... | |
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I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother-land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which... 
