...to draw them, from the sentiments which originated in, and were given to the world from this hall. I have never had a feeling, politically, that did...sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. I have often pondered over the dangers which were incurred by the men who assembled here and framed...

...where the Declaration of Independence had been adopted. Speaking with deep emotion, I said that I'd never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in that document. "I've often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy...

...able to draw them, from the sentiments which originated, and were given to the world from this hall. I have never had a feeling politically that did not...sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. I have often pondered over the dangers which were incurred by the men who assembled here, and framed...

...which originated, and were given to the world from this hall [Independence Hall] in which we stand. I have never had a feeling politically that did not...sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. ... I have often inquired of myself, what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy...

...Hall, Philadelphia, President-elect Lincoln praised the great document of 1776 as his political guide: "I have never had a feeling politically that did not...sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence." It "gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that...

...a plot to kill him, Lincoln stopped at Philadelphia, where, standing in Independence Hall, he said, "I have never had a feeling politically that did not...sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence." Then, with eerie foresight, he added that before he would save the Union by giving up those principles,...

...from the sentiments that originated in and were given to the world from this hall in which we stand. I have never had a feeling politically that did not...sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. I have often pondered over the dangers which were incurred by the men who assembled here and framed...

...from the sentiments which originated, and were given to the world from this hall in which we stand. I have never had a feeling politically that did not...from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence."91 Two years earlier, Lincoln's court schedule in Bloomington, Illinois, obliged him...

...framed and adopted." Although contemplating the dangers ahead, he assured his listeners that he had "never had a feeling politically that did not spring...sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence." 9 (Yet Philadelphia workers employed the same symbols to call for compromise at any cost.) 10 February...

...of Lincoln: "It was not the mere separation of the colonies from the motherland, but the sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted...