 | Emanuel Hertz - 1927 - 774 sayfa
...whittled down its massive proportions. Lincoln's democracy stands out monumental, heroic, immovable. "The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and...denied and evaded with no small show of success. One daringly calls them 'glittering generalities'; another blandly calls them 'self-evident lies.' And... | |
 | Charles Warren - 1927 - 98 sayfa
...They are not the possession of any one political party; for it was Abraham Lincoln, himself, who said: "The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. . . . All honor to Jefferson." It has been well said of him that: "About Jefferson as the head of a... | |
 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1927 - 272 sayfa
...This school felt the need of Lincoln. Overlooking the fact that Lincoln went to war, declaring that "the principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society," Roosevelt congratulated an English biographer on "finely" saying that Lincoln "carried out the Hamiltonian... | |
 | 1928 - 858 sayfa
...Soberly, it is no child's play to save the principles of Jefferson from total overthrow in this Nation. The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and...Another bluntly calls them " self-evident lies." And other's insidiously argue that they npply only to "superior races." These expressions, differing in... | |
 | 1887 - 980 sayfa
...true; but nevertheless he would fail, utterly, with one who should deny the definitions and axioms. The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and...Another bluntly calls them ' self-evident lies.' And " Colfax to Lincoln, July I4th, 1859. MS. t Lincoln to Canisius, May 1 7th, 1859. others insidiously... | |
 | Glen E. Thurow - 1976 - 146 sayfa
...true; but, nevertheless, he would fail, utterly, with one who should deny the definitions and axioms. The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and...they are denied, and evaded, with no small show of success.19 But the quotation also reveals that Lincoln thought the status of the principles presented... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - 292 sayfa
...true; but, nevertheless, he would fail, utterly, with one who should deny the definitions and axioms. The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and..."glittering generalities"; another bluntly calls them "self evident lies"; and still others insidiously argue that they apply only to "superior races." These... | |
 | John P. Diggins - 1986 - 430 sayfa
...the critique of the Declaration's principles leveled by Calhoun, Choate, and other antiegalitarians. "One dashingly calls them 'glittering generalities.'...lies.' And others insidiously argue that they apply to the 'superior races.' These expressions, differing in form, are identical in object and effect —... | |
 | John P. Diggins - 1986 - 430 sayfa
...Another bluntly calls them 'self-evident lies.' And others insidiously argue that they apply to the 'superior races.' These expressions, differing in form, are identical in object and effect — supplanting the principles of free government, and restoring those of classification, caste, and... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt, Norman O. Forness - 1996 - 486 sayfa
...true; but, nevertheless, he would fail, utterly, with one who should deny the definitions and axioms. The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and...they are denied and evaded, with no small show of success.16 In his Lyceum Speech Lincoln described and analyzed the erosion of revolutionary sentiments... | |
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The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. And yet they are denied and evaded, with no small show of success. One dashingly calls them "glittering generalities. 
