 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1917 - 360 sider
...the condition of men — to lift artificial weights from all shoulders; to clear the paths of lawful pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life." Five months later, in his regular message to Congress, he repeated what he had said before he was President:... | |
 | Luther Emerson Robinson - 1918 - 376 sider
...that form and substance of goverment whose leading object, is to elevate the condition of men — to lift artificial weights from all shoulders ; to clear...of the government for whose existence we contend. . . . Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have... | |
 | Henry Ezekiel Jackson - 1918 - 210 sider
...condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuits for all, to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life." This is the ideal which makes America to be what she is ; it is the ideal to which she was dedicated... | |
 | Reuben M. Wanamaker - 1918 - 384 sider
...of men." "To lift artificial weights from the shoulders." "To clear the paths of laudable pursuits for all." "To afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life." These four phrases spell humanity, and Lincoln forever makes them the definition of our American democracy.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1921 - 292 sider
...that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men, — to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear...necessity, this is the leading object of the government for the existence of which we contend. I am most happy to believe that the plain people understand and... | |
 | Henry Ezekiel Jackson - 1922 - 332 sider
...condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuits for all, to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life." Simultaneously with this Revolution, occurred another far less dramatic, but far more drastic in its... | |
 | John Simpson Penman - 1923 - 754 sider
...elevate the condition of men — to lift artificial weights from all shoulders; to clear the paths for laudable pursuit for all ; to afford all an unfettered start, and a fair chance in the race of life." 14 From this view of the supreme issue of the conflict, Lincoln ever refused to be swerved. In his... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1926 - 544 sider
...that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men — to lift artificial weights from all shoulders; to clear...of the government for whose existence we contend. Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already... | |
 | Max Carl Otto - 1926 - 116 sider
...that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the conditions of men; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders; to clear...unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life." And if it were necessary to include in this summary the various lists of ultimate hopes devised by... | |
 | Max Carl Otto - 1926 - 118 sider
...that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the conditions of men; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders; to clear...unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life." And if it were necessary to include in this summary the various lists of ultimate hopes devised by... | |
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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... 
