...1861, in a message to Congress he stated, "This is essentially a people's contest. It is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance...government whose leading object is to elevate the constitution of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable...

...1861, Lincoln said, "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 object is to elevate the condition of men ... to afford all an unfettered start, and a fair chance...

...session on July 5, one day after the nation's unhappiest birthday, its eightyfifth. "It is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance...unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life." Lincoln asked for 400,000 men and $400 million to put down the rebellion. He made a strong case for...

...throughout the world: "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...unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life."29 His letter to James Conkling on emancipation and to Erastus Corning on civil liberties demonstrated...

..."aristocracy of wealth" with an "aristocracy of virtue and talent." So too, Lincoln remarked that government's "leading object" is "to elevate the condition of men;...unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life." The idea that the state should not penalize children for their parents' decisions is the fundamental...

...judgment, Lincoln insisted that the war was being fought for the American dream, that it was "a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance...artificial weights from all shoulders — to clear die path of laudable pursuit for all." Like Lincoln, Martin Luther King revitalized faith in the Declaration...

...President Lincoln in a speech to Congress said that the war was "a People's contest ... a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form and substance...leading object is to elevate the condition of men . . .." and this War Between the States was, among other things, a war about the condition of the slaves....

...by another statement of Abraham Lincoln's — when he spoke, in his First Message, of "the struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance...unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life." — Jacques Maritain CHAPTER THREE Jacques Maritain and Yves R. Simon s Use of Thomas Aquinas in Their...

...rights articulated by the Declaration as the highest political truths.16 They alone made possible the "form, and substance of government, whose leading...unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life."17 The Declaration guaranteed Americans "the right to rise"18 and stood as a model for "the liberty...

...war "essentially a People's contest ... a struggle for the maintaining in the world, that form of, and substance of government, whose leading object...artificial weights from all shoulders; to clear the path of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race...