 | Hans Bak - 2004 - 372 pages
...Congress: This is essentially a people's contest .... It is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of government whose leading...men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders. He still believed the South to be committed to the cause of progress. His outlook was to change radically... | |
 | Lawrence R. Velvel - 2004 - 282 pages
...would "lift artificial weights from all shoulders," "clear the paths of laudable pursuits for all," and "afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life." Lincoln likewise spoke of the need to help not just oneself, but one's fellow man. His greatest fear... | |
 | Alfred Kazin, Ted Solotaroff - 2004 - 593 pages
...of the Union, it is a sttuggle fot maintaining in the wotld, that fotm, and substance of govetnment, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men — to lift attificial weights ttom all shouldets — to cleat the paths of laudable putsuit fot all — to affotd... | |
 | Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - 2005 - 444 pages
...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...of the government for whose existence we contend. I am most happy to believe that the plain people understand, and appreciate this. It is worthy of note,... | |
 | Mark Tushnet - 2005 - 278 pages
...hard time appreciating: that the struggle for the Union is "a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of government whose leading...leading object of the Government for whose existence we contend."19 Madison made the same kind of point in The Federalist 45 when he accused the states' righters... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - 2005 - 462 pages
...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...weights from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laud- 127 able pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of... | |
 | Theodore R. Sizer - 2005 - 164 pages
...as the "leading object ... to elevate the condition of men — to lift artificial weights from their shoulders — to clear the paths of laudable pursuit...unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life." l2 An unfettered start . . . A fair chance in the race of life . . . Government's leading object .... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - 2006 - 945 pages
...chance, in the race of life." To Lincoln's mind, the fundamental test of a democracy was its capacity to "elevate the condition of men, to lift artificial...shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all." A real democracy would be a meritocracy where those born in the lower ranks could rise as far as their... | |
 | Thomas Harry Williams - 1941 - 444 pages
...people's contest," he said. "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 artif1cial weights from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all... | |
 | Scott A. Sandage - 2006 - 396 pages
...graced his first message to Congress in 1861, only three months into a war "whose leading object is ... to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life." After 1863, "unfettered" took on a more liberal (and literal) meaning, yet emancipation enlarged Lincoln's... | |
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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... 
