 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition, is yet...walks of life. I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me. My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of this county, and if elected... | |
 | Herbert Mitgang - Drama - 1982 - 68 pages
...radical policies. My qualities are thought by many to be negative. They have long records. I have none. I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life. I have no wealthy relatives to recommend me. You mean that? That's just the sort of candidate you're looking for? Mary,... | |
 | Waldo W. Braden - History - 1993 - 132 pages
...first political handbill, addressed to the people of Sangamon County, Lincoln wrote on March 9, 1832: "I am young and unknown to many of you. I was born...walks of life. I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me. My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters in this county, and if elected... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 946 pages
...that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition, is yet...walks of life. I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me. My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of this county, and if elected... | |
 | Paul Simon - Illinois - 1989 - 348 pages
...that of being truly esteemed by my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition, is yet...walks of life. I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me. My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of this county, and if elected... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 724 pages
...men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem." How well he would succeed "is yet to be developed." "I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life," he reminded voters, in what was to become part of his standard appeal; on at least thirty-five other... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 460 pages
...more or less misgivings; his humility, his constitutional sense of inferiority, comes out at the end. "I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life," he said. "I have no wealthy or popular relations or friends to recommend me. ... If the good people... | |
 | Michael Burlingame - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 418 pages
...tend to subscribe to the former school.159 As he told voters during his first political campaign, he "was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life"; a decade later he referred to himself at twenty-two as "a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 220 pages
...that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition, is yet...walks of life. I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me. My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of this county, and if elected... | |
 | Lowell Harrison - History - 2000 - 346 pages
...become worthy of the esteem of his fellow man. "I am young and unknown to many of you," he concluded. "I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life. I have no wealthy or popular relatives to recommend me. My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of this county,... | |
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My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of the county ; and, if elected, they will have conferred a favor upon me for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compensate. But, if the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep... 
