Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865J.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1894 - 237 pages |
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... better reason . For most of the qualities which the world admires in Cicero or in Burke we should look in vain in Lincoln's speeches . They are not fine pieces of exquisite diction , fit to be declaimed as school exercises or set before ...
... better reason . For most of the qualities which the world admires in Cicero or in Burke we should look in vain in Lincoln's speeches . They are not fine pieces of exquisite diction , fit to be declaimed as school exercises or set before ...
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... better only to be sometimes right than at all times wrong , so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous I shall be ready to renounce them . Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition . Whether it be true or not , I can say ...
... better only to be sometimes right than at all times wrong , so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous I shall be ready to renounce them . Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition . Whether it be true or not , I can say ...
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... better tenure than the caprice of a mob , the alienation of their affection for the government is the natural consequence , and to that sooner or later it must come . Here , then , is one point at which danger may be expected . The ...
... better tenure than the caprice of a mob , the alienation of their affection for the government is the natural consequence , and to that sooner or later it must come . Here , then , is one point at which danger may be expected . The ...
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... her present bulk in less than thirty - five or forty years ; and , in short , I was not at all pleased with her . But what could I do ? I had told her sister that I would take her for better or for worse , Abraham Lincoln , 1832-1865 9.
... her present bulk in less than thirty - five or forty years ; and , in short , I was not at all pleased with her . But what could I do ? I had told her sister that I would take her for better or for worse , Abraham Lincoln , 1832-1865 9.
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Abraham Lincoln Merwin Roe. I would take her for better or for worse , and I made a point of honour and conscience in all things to stick to my word , especially if others had been induced to act on it , which in this case I had no doubt ...
Abraham Lincoln Merwin Roe. I would take her for better or for worse , and I made a point of honour and conscience in all things to stick to my word , especially if others had been induced to act on it , which in this case I had no doubt ...
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Page 204 - And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Page 213 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final restingplace for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 175 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 203 - ... the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people...
Page 202 - That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free...
Page 70 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 82 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. '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.
Page 194 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 172 - One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.
Page 223 - At this second appearing to take the oath of the 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 very 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.