 | Melvin Stokes, Melvyn Stokes, Stephen Conway - 1996 - 366 Seiten
...liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time." This was the promise "that in due time the weights should be lifted...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 Seiten
...the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time. It was that which gave [the] promise that in due time the weights should be lifted...all men, and that all should have an equal chance. "Speech in Independence Hall," Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1861, reprinted in Collected... | |
 | Frank P. King - 1997 - 260 Seiten
...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...all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.49 Lincoln did all he could to destroy... | |
 | Gary L. McDowell, L. Sharon Noble, Sharon L. Noble - 1997 - 350 Seiten
...to the Declaration of Independence, Lincoln affirmed that the liberty enshrined in the Declaration "gave promise that in due time the weights should...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... | |
 | 1958 - 534 Seiten
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 | Jay Monaghan - 1997 - 538 Seiten
...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 weights would be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - 2009 - 522 Seiten
...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...all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence." It was that principle, the central... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson - 1998 - 572 Seiten
...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...all men, and that all should have an equal chance." The Declaration was the great creative myth of the American people. Superficially at stake in 1861... | |
 | Conrad Cherry - 1998 - 428 Seiten
...Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope for the world for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time...lifted from the shoulders of all men and that all men should have an equal chance." That has been the spirit which has animated our people since they... | |
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It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time. It was... 
