 | Frank MacHovec - 2007 - 206 pages
...lead us safely out of this wilderness." In his 1861 inaugural address he said: "We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...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... | |
 | Randall Norman Desoto - 2007 - 266 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... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - 2007 - 476 pages
...watchwords that ended Lincoln's long silence. He finished: "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 even' living heart and... | |
 | Philip Abbott - 2007 - 198 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Matthew S. Holland - 2007 - 340 pages
...they think he will take the country on the charged issue of slavery, he pleads, 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 battlef1eld, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone,... | |
 | Stephen William Berry - 2007 - 318 pages
...surely it is one of the prettier things Lincoln ever 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 hearth-stone,... | |
 | 532 pages
...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...must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriotic grave to every loving heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Timothy Rasinski, Lorraine Griffith - 2007 - 176 pages
...Providence on a just cause." President Abraham Lincoln, Inaugural Address, March 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,... | |
 | Patrick J. Buchanan - 2007 - 316 pages
...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...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 F. Boller - 2007 - 444 pages
...containing, as so often with his writing, a touch of 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 battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone,... | |
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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... 
