Abraham Lincoln's SpeechesDodd, Mead and Company, 1896 - 371 pages |
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... must ourselves be its author and finisher . As a nation of freemen , we must live through all time , or die by suicide . 66 • There is even now something of ill omen among us . I mean the increasing disre- gard ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 19.
... must ourselves be its author and finisher . As a nation of freemen , we must live through all time , or die by suicide . 66 • There is even now something of ill omen among us . I mean the increasing disre- gard ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 19.
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... nation . " Many great and good men , sufficiently quali- fied for any task they should undertake , may ever be found , whose ambition would aspire to nothing beyond a seat in Congress , a gubernatorial or a presidential chair . But such ...
... nation . " Many great and good men , sufficiently quali- fied for any task they should undertake , may ever be found , whose ambition would aspire to nothing beyond a seat in Congress , a gubernatorial or a presidential chair . But such ...
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... nations of the earth . In it the world has found a solu- tion of the long - mooted problem as to the capa- bility of man to govern himself . In it was the germ which has vegetated , and still is to grow and expand into the universal ...
... nations of the earth . In it the world has found a solu- tion of the long - mooted problem as to the capa- bility of man to govern himself . In it was the germ which has vegetated , and still is to grow and expand into the universal ...
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... nation ; and that to make them always suc- cessful needs but to get them all to the polls and to vote unitedly . This is the great desideratum . Let us make every effort to attain it . At every election , let every Whig act as though he ...
... nation ; and that to make them always suc- cessful needs but to get them all to the polls and to vote unitedly . This is the great desideratum . Let us make every effort to attain it . At every election , let every Whig act as though he ...
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... ought to be re- stored . . . . But whether it be or not , we shall have repudiated discarded from the councils of the nation the spirit of compromise ; - for who , after this , will ever trust in 4 ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 49.
... ought to be re- stored . . . . But whether it be or not , we shall have repudiated discarded from the councils of the nation the spirit of compromise ; - for who , after this , will ever trust in 4 ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 49.
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