 | Bruce D. Weinstein - 2005 - 200 pages
...Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, which he gave on Monday, March 4, 1861: We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...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... | |
 | Paul Woodruff - 2006 - 304 pages
...Lincoln's plea for harmony is addressed to the South at his first inauguration: We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...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... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - 2005 - 860 pages
...out once more in a moving and conciliatory gesture, he said: I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...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... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - 2006 - 945 pages
...Seward's patriotic sentiments into a concise and powerful poetry: "I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - 2005 - 462 pages
...most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend" it. I am loth [sic] to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battle-field and patriot's grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Richard Striner - 2006 - 320 pages
...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...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, streching [sic] from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart... | |
 | Mark David Ledbetter - 2010 - 505 pages
...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...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and... | |
 | Ian Frederick Finseth - 2006 - 648 pages
...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...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Mark A. Graber - 2006 - 300 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 2006 - 896 pages
...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 mystic...cords 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... | |
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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... 
