 No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty ; none less inclined to take or touch aught which they have not honestly earned. Let them beware of surrendering a political power which they already possess, and which, if...  Democratic Campaign Book: Presidential Election of 1896 - Страница 228написао/ла Democratic Party. National Committee, 1896-1900 - 1896 - 383 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | United States. Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission - 1958 - 48 страница
...it extends not beyond the parties themselves. — DEBATE, ALTON, OCTOBER 15, 1858. Poverty. No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty. — FIRST ANNUAL MESSAGE, DECEMBER 3, 1861. Promises. Bad promises are better broken than kept. —... | |
 | 1913 - 1190 страница
...gives hope to all, and consequent energy and progress, and improvement of condition to all. No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty — none less inclined to touch or take aught which they have not honestly earned. Let them beware of surrendering a political... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - 292 страница
...gives hope to all, and consequent energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all. No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who...which, if surrendered, will surely be used to close the door of advancement against such as they, and to fix new disabilities and burdens upon them, till all... | |
 | 1980 - 224 страница
...hope to all, and consequent energy and progress, and improvement of condition to all." Let laborers, "beware of surrendering a political power which they...which, if surrendered, will surely be used to close the door of advancement" on them. Americans owed their opportunity, their national growth, their prosperity... | |
 | David Montgomery - 1967 - 556 страница
...1864). such men as these which the rebellion threatened, said Lincoln. "No men living," he concluded, "are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty. . . ."9 Because it played such a significant role in American ideology, the myth of the self-made man... | |
 | John P. Diggins - 1986 - 430 страница
...activity renders the Republic "prosperous" and "generous" and nurtures its moral character: "No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty." Ironically, it was Lincoln, the hard-driving, self-made man who channeled all his ambitions into the... | |
 | Michael Novak - 1984 - 316 страница
...gives hope to all, and consequent energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all. No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who...which, if surrendered, will surely be used to close the door of advancement against such as they, and to fix new disabilities and burdens upon them, till all... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson - 1995 - 493 страница
...against a system founded on slave labor. He there extolled "those who toil up from poverty" and warned, "Let them beware of surrendering a political power which they already possess, and which power, if surrendered, will surely be used to close the doors of advancement against such as they,... | |
 | G. S. Boritt - 1994 - 418 страница
...to make one hesitate to label it as such. In his first annual message he told the country: "No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty." Humble man that Abe Lincoln was, he could speak thus in praise of his own triumph because of an unawareness... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - 1996 - 208 страница
...Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 1 , p. 269. Rutgers University Press ( 1 953, 1 990). No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who...touch, aught which they have not honestly earned. "Annual Message to Congress," December 3, 1861, reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v.... | |
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