 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...this condensed note which he wrote, perhaps as an autograph, a year or two before his Presidency : "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is... | |
 | American essays - 1919 - 1066 pages
...continual pressing forward to that democracy of which Lincoln gave the ultimate definition when .he said, 'As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master.' In the field of the spirit, embodied in the forms of religion, there must be a quickening which shall... | |
 | Eltweed Pomeroy - Legislation - 1900 - 132 pages
...some supposedly higher and better class, but you belong to them in the spirit of Lincoln when he said: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master." You meet in them as equals, as peers, to discuss, decide and act for the good of all. Self-reliant,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1906 - 476 pages
...the paper. Your friend as ever, A. LINCOLN. LINCOLN'S DEFINITION OF DEMOCRACY.1 [August l ?], l858. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 148 pages
...Lincoln on his Nomination National Supremacy Definition of Democracy War Opposing Factions in a State A> I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference is... | |
 | Granite industry and trade - 1916 - 450 pages
...democracy, in his own handwriting, is shown in the case designated as "The Lincoln-Douglas Debates." "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy — whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference,... | |
 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - 1916 - 500 pages
...this condensed note which he wrote, perhaps as an autograph, a year or two before his Presidency : " As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is... | |
 | Detroit Public Library - 1917 - 820 pages
...post office at Detroit. Michigan Under the Act cl August 24, 1912 Vol. 2 April 1, 1919 No. 15 Labor "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master." APR -2 19<' —Lincoln. is quite as dangerous as that of single rulers." These 'are Vn"e words of one... | |
 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - 1917 - 508 pages
...this condensed note which he wrote, perhaps as an autograph, a year or two before his Presi' dency : "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is... | |
 | 1918 - 586 pages
...his condensed note which he wrote, perhaps as an autograph, a year or .two before his 'presidency: 'As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference is... | |
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy. 
