Abraham LincolnThis volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln's most important speeches, state papers and letters in their entirety. Here are not only the masterpieces- the Gettysburg Address, the Inaugural Addresses, the 1858 Republican State Convention Speech and the Emancipation Proclamation - but hundreds of lesser-known ones, including excerpts from the Lincoln-Douglas debates, letters to Grant, McClellan, Stanton and his wife, and various meditations, verses and fragments. |
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... liberty are among the finest on record , upon the noblest of all themes , and bear ample corroboration of what I have said was his ruling passion - a love of liberty and right , unselfishly , and for their own sakes . Having been led to ...
... liberty are among the finest on record , upon the noblest of all themes , and bear ample corroboration of what I have said was his ruling passion - a love of liberty and right , unselfishly , and for their own sakes . Having been led to ...
Page 460
... liberty and ultimate emancipation , that they must , if they would do this , go back to the era of our Independence , and muzzle the cannon which thunders its annual joyous return ; they must blow out the moral lights around us ; they ...
... liberty and ultimate emancipation , that they must , if they would do this , go back to the era of our Independence , and muzzle the cannon which thunders its annual joyous return ; they must blow out the moral lights around us ; they ...
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... liberty is the source of political liberty and that no man can deny liberty to another without endangering his own . LETTER TO M. P. SWEET SEPTEMBER 16 , 1858 Hon 474 ABRAHAM LINCOLN :
... liberty is the source of political liberty and that no man can deny liberty to another without endangering his own . LETTER TO M. P. SWEET SEPTEMBER 16 , 1858 Hon 474 ABRAHAM LINCOLN :
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Speech in the United States House | 27 |
Political Announcement | 53 |
Letter to Colonel Robert Allen June 21 1836 | 59 |
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