 | Theodore R. Sizer - 2005 - 164 páginas
...object ... to elevate the condition of men — to lift artificial weights from their shoulders — to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all —...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 .... | |
 | Thomas Harry Williams - 1941 - 444 páginas
...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...unfettered start, and a fair chance in the race of life."7 Senator John Sherman of industrial Ohio phrased the economic objectives of his party more bluntly:... | |
 | Armstead L. Robinson - 2005 - 392 páginas
...political equality and economic opportunity. The North, in stark contrast to the elitist South, was seeking "to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life." Adding an aside Southern nationalists would take as a gross slander, Lincoln said, "I am most happy... | |
 | Scott A. Sandage - 2006 - 396 páginas
...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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 2006 - 896 páginas
...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... | |
 | James E. Fleming - 2006 - 350 páginas
...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...leading object of the Government for whose existence we contend.22 Madison made the same kind of point in The Federalist No. 45 when he accused proponents... | |
 | Thomas E. Schneider - 2006 - 241 páginas
...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 —...unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life. One may assume that Lincoln did not expect all to follow the paths of laudable pursuit, however clear... | |
 | Norton Garfinkle - 2008 - 240 páginas
...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...unfettered start, and a fair chance in the race of life" (emphasis added).3 Or as he said while campaigning for president in 1860, "I want every man to have... | |
 | Richard Striner - 2006 - 320 páginas
...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 —...unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life [my emphasis]."5 Regarding those who rebelled against a people's government, the duty of patriots was... | |
 | David F. Prindle - 2006 - 398 páginas
...the White House was a politician who understood that the war then in its early months was a struggle "to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all—...unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life."117 Like Albert Gallatin before him, Lincoln believed that democracy and capitalism were marvelous... | |
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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... 
