 | Daniel Kilham Dodge - 1924 - 198 pages
...he who did most toward reaching that standard attained the highest degree of moral perfection. So I say in relation to the principle that all men are...that will impose slavery upon any other creature." * The closing sentence is of the highly imaginative kind so frequently found in Lincoln's closing words... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - Presidents - 1925 - 586 pages
...he who did most toward reaching that standard, attained the highest degree of moral perfection. So I say in relation to the principle that all men are...equal, let it be as nearly reached as we can. If we can not give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - 1926 - 526 pages
...quoted the Savior, "Be ye perfect"; it was an ideal, impossible to realize, but worth striving for. "In relation to the principle that all men are created...that will impose slavery upon any other creature." Thus he would explain the meaning of the Fourth of July. It was not merely a day for the fizzling of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1927 - 474 pages
...he who did most toward reaching that standard attained the highest degree of moral perfection. So I say in relation to the principle that all men are...that will impose slavery upon any other creature. Let us then turn this government back into the channel in which the framers of the Constitution originally... | |
 | Warren Choate Shaw - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1928 - 694 pages
...he who does most toward reaching that standard, attains the highest degree of moral perfection. So I say in relation to the principle that all men are...give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing to impose slavery upon any other creature. Let us then turn this government back into the channel in... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - Presidents - 1928 - 782 pages
...attained the highest degree of moral perfection.' So let the principle that all men are created equal, 'be as nearly reached as we can. If we cannot give...that will impose slavery upon any other creature. [Applause.] Let us then turn this government back into the channel in which the f rumors of the Constitution... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - Presidents - 1928 - 784 pages
...attained the highest degree of moral perfection.' So let the principle that all men are created equal, 'be as nearly reached as we can. If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do 1 Workt. in. nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature. [Applause.] Let us then turn... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt, Norman O. Forness - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 486 pages
...can." The qualification is as critical to an understanding of Lincoln's role as is the objective: "So I say in relation to the principle that all men are created equal, let it be as nearly reached as we can."12 The words carry no expectation for perfection, no demand for immediate fulfillment. By temperament... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 946 pages
...who did most towards reaching that standard, attained the highest degree of moral perfection. So I say in relation to the principle that all men are...that will impose slavery upon any other creature. [Applause.] Let us then turn this government back into the channel in which the framers of the Constitution... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 474 pages
...who did most towards reaching that standard, attained the highest degree of moral perfection. So I say in relation to the principle that all men are...that will impose slavery upon any other creature. [Applause.] Let us then turn this government back into the channel in which the framers of the Constitution... | |
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He set that up as a standard, and he who did most toward reaching that standard, attained the highest degree of moral perfection. So I say in relation to the principle that all men are created equal, let it be as nearly reached as we can. If we cannot... 
