 | Mark A. Graber - 2006 - 300 pages
...to the problem of constitutional evil. The last paragraph offers a poetic appeal for national unity: 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... | |
 | Ian Frederick Finseth - 2006 - 648 pages
...destroy the government, while 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... | |
 | Mark David Ledbetter - 2010 - 505 pages
...and added the better angels to make this the strongest ending by far to any inaugural address ever. 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... | |
 | Richard Striner - 2006 - 320 pages
...and defend' it."95 At Seward's suggestion, Lincoln closed with some conciliatory words: "I am loth 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, streching... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 2006 - 896 pages
...destroy the Government; while 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 he enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The... | |
 | Patrick J. Buchanan - 2007 - 316 pages
..."mystic chords of memory" that tied us together, and to our patriot fathers who had fought side by side. 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... | |
 | Randall Norman Desoto - 2007 - 266 pages
...destroy the government, while 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... | |
 | Philip Abbott - 2007 - 198 pages
...in the life of a nation, probably only in wartime, or on the eve of war, and then only by a Lincoln: 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... | |
 | Robert G. Ingersoll - 2007 - 516 pages
...there are few finer passages In literature than the close of Lincoln's inaugural address : " I am loth 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... | |
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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,... 
