| United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan) - 1982 - 940 páginas
...great principle or idea it was that had held the Union together for so long. "It was not," he said, "the mere matter of the separation of the Colonies from the motherland." And as the great man pondered the deeper meaning on America, he referred to a document. Instead, he... | |
| C. W. E. Bigsby - 1982 - 364 páginas
...ideal is it that has kept this Union so long together? And I believe that it was not the mere matter of separation of the colonies from the motherland, but...the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty to the people of this country and hope to all the world. This sentiment was the fulfilment of an ancient... | |
| Gary J. Jacobsohn - 1986 - 196 páginas
...embodied in the Declaration of Independence."40 He then wondered out loud about what had kept the country together. "It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land; but something in that Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country,... | |
| Waldo Warder Braden - 1990 - 278 páginas
...the officers and soldiers of the army who achieved that independence. I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this...matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence, which gave liberty, not alone to... | |
| David Tucker - 1992 - 36 páginas
...nation on the principle that all men were created equal. Devotion to this principle, Lincoln said, "not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land," established the nation. But the principle that all men are created equal did more than... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources - 1994 - 148 páginas
...economic, and technological revolution. Abraham Lincoln sad this: I have often inquired of myself, what great principle or idea it was that kept this...separation of the colonies from the motherland; but something in that Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to... | |
| Kenneth Winfred Thompson - 1984 - 372 páginas
...world mission as one of its components. Abraham Lincoln once said. "I have often inquired of myself, what great principle or idea it was that kept this...separation of the colonies from the motherland; but something in that Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - 1996 - 208 páginas
...Abraham Lincoln, v. 3, p. 95. Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990). I have often inquired of myself, what great principle or idea it was that kept this...matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land; but something in that Declaration [of Independence] giving liberty, not alone to the people... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs - 1996 - 168 páginas
...prepared statement of Mr. Dart follows:] PREPARED STATEMENT OF MR. DART 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 separation of the colonies from the motherland; but something in that Declaration giving liberty not... | |
| Frank P. King - 1997 - 260 páginas
...Philadelphia, in February 1861 on his way from Illinois to Washington: I have often inquired of myself, what great principle or idea it was that kept this...matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land; but something in that Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country,... | |
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