Selections from the Works of Abraham LincolnComp. by the Committee, 1893 - 116 pages |
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... keys , which can never be un- locked without the concurrence of every key - the keys in the hands of a hundred different men , and they scattered to a hundred dif- ferent and distant places ; and they stand musing as 23 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... keys , which can never be un- locked without the concurrence of every key - the keys in the hands of a hundred different men , and they scattered to a hundred dif- ferent and distant places ; and they stand musing as 23 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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... hands , without ask- ing leave of any one else , she is my equal and the equal of all others . Chief Justice Taney , in his opin- ion in the Dred Scott case , admits that the language of the Declara- tion is broad enough to include the ...
... hands , without ask- ing leave of any one else , she is my equal and the equal of all others . Chief Justice Taney , in his opin- ion in the Dred Scott case , admits that the language of the Declara- tion is broad enough to include the ...
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... hands , and to trans- mit it , unimpaired by him , to his successor . Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people ? Is there any better or equal hope in the world ? In our present differ- ences ...
... hands , and to trans- mit it , unimpaired by him , to his successor . Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people ? Is there any better or equal hope in the world ? In our present differ- ences ...
Page 73
... hands at very short intervals . While the people retain their vir- tue and vigilance , no administra- tion , by any extreme of wicked- ness or folly , can very seriously injure the Government in the short space of four years . My ...
... hands at very short intervals . While the people retain their vir- tue and vigilance , no administra- tion , by any extreme of wicked- ness or folly , can very seriously injure the Government in the short space of four years . My ...
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... hands , my dissatisfied fellow - countrymen , and not in mine , is the momentous issue of civil war . The Government will not assail you . You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors . You have no oath registered in ...
... hands , my dissatisfied fellow - countrymen , and not in mine , is the momentous issue of civil war . The Government will not assail you . You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors . You have no oath registered in ...
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Page 33 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. " A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 60 - Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation; but can we, while our votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the national territories, and to overrun us here in these free states ? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively.
Page 90 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 112 - Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then, a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
Page 34 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will...
Page 88 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 30 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Page 77 - J^abor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Page 63 - FRIENDS: No one not in my situation can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place and the kindness of these people I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
Page 67 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.