 | William Hanchett - 1994 - 172 páginas
...world for all future time." The Declaration had given promise "that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance." Could the country be saved on the basis ofthat promise? he asked. "If it can, I will consider myself... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources - 1994 - 148 páginas
...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 shoulder* of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the... | |
 | Kenneth Winfred Thompson - 1984 - 372 páginas
...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 tbe shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the... | |
 | G. S. Boritt - 1994 - 418 páginas
...Revolutionary theme. He still spoke with "deep emotion," and now the press reported his completed thought: "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."20 One suspects... | |
 | Melvin Stokes, Melvyn Stokes, Stephen Conway - 1996 - 366 páginas
...but hope to the world for all future time." This was the promise "that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance." In his special session message of July 4, 1861 he again used both this image and the race-of-life metaphor... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - 1996 - 208 páginas
...p. 236. Rutgers University Press ( 1953, 1 990). [The] promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. ... If this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle — I was about to say I would... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs - 1996 - 176 páginas
...Declaration giving liberty not alone to the people of this country, out 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. — Abraham... | |
 | Philip Abbott - 1996 - 302 páginas
..."often inquired of myself what was the "great principle or idea" of the Document and concluded that "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 be given an equal chance."71 The... | |
 | Jay Monaghan - 1997 - 538 páginas
...future time," was the sentiment guiding them. Then, addressing the slaveholding South, he concluded : "It was that which gave promise that in due time the...sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence. . . . But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would... | |
 | Gary L. McDowell, L. Sharon Noble, Sharon L. Noble - 1997 - 350 páginas
...affirmed that the liberty enshrined in the Declaration "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. This," said Lincoln, "is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence." But is it? In any event,... | |
| |
It was not the mere matter of separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence... 
