 | Meta Mendel-Reyes - Political Science - 1995 - 242 pages
...the founders and those who had just arrived, to continue the democratic struggle for equality: "So I say in relation to the principle that all men are created equal, let it be as nearly reached as we can."45 Striving together to reach the standard of equality is democratic in a double sense: it is... | |
 | Daniel C. Palm - Political Science - 1997 - 230 pages
...most towards reaching that standard, attained the highest degree of moral perfection. So I say that in relation to the principle that all men are created equal, let it be as nearly reached as we can.53 Third, the all-seeing eye is not only America's protector and ruling guide; God is also her... | |
 | Douglas L. Wilson - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 216 pages
...degree of moral perfection." This suggests a parallel with the Declaration's equality clause: "So I say in relation to the principle that all men are...do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature."23 Thus Lincoln demonstrated how the Declaration, with an assist from the Bible, could be... | |
 | Digital Scanning Inc - History - 1999 - 278 pages
...attained the highest degree of moral perfection. So I say in relation to the principle that all men are 23 created equal, let it be as nearly reached as we can....freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that mill impose slavery upon any other creature. Let us then turn this Government hack into the channel... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - History - 2009 - 522 pages
...man. If we can't give freedom to every creature, let it be as nearly reached as it can. If we can't give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature." I closed with an appeal: "Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man — this... | |
 | Kenneth L. Deutsch, John Albert Murley - Philosophy - 1999 - 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...created equal, let it be as nearly reached as we can." Crisis, pp. 316-317. 26. Crisis, p. 341. 27. Crisis, pp. 314-328. 28. Crisis, pp. 3 18-321. 29. Crisis,... | |
 | Howard Jones - Political Science - 1999 - 268 pages
...perfection." Consequently, Lincoln alluded to this idea in the following revealing statement: "So I say in relation to the principle that all men are created equal, let it be as nearly reached as we can."The authors of the Declaration of Independence, he insisted on another occasion, "meant simply... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 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...created equal, let it be as nearly reached as we can." Lincoln, Speech at Chicago, July 10, 1858, Collected Works, vol. II, p. 501 72. Federalist Papers,... | |
 | Dan McKanan - Religion - 2002 - 312 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...do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature."86 The National Union Lincoln's willingness to treat human equality as an ultimate ideal... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 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 created equal, let it be nearly reached as we can. ... Let us turn this government back into the channel in which the framers... | |
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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... 
