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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Page 187
... never to add the weight of his character to a charge against his fellow man , without knowing it to be true . — I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false ...
... never to add the weight of his character to a charge against his fellow man , without knowing it to be true . — I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false ...
Page 285
... never thought of ; their own father never thought of , they never thought of themselves , a year ago . How fortunate for them , they did not sooner become sensible of their great misery ! Oh , how difficult it is to treat with respect ...
... never thought of ; their own father never thought of , they never thought of themselves , a year ago . How fortunate for them , they did not sooner become sensible of their great misery ! Oh , how difficult it is to treat with respect ...
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... never try , we shall never succeed . If he makes a stand at Winchester , moving neither north nor south , I would fight him there , on the idea that if we cannot beat him when he bears the wastage of coming to us , we never can when we ...
... never try , we shall never succeed . If he makes a stand at Winchester , moving neither north nor south , I would fight him there , on the idea that if we cannot beat him when he bears the wastage of coming to us , we never can when we ...
Contents
Speech in the United States House | 27 |
Political Announcement | 53 |
Letter to Colonel Robert Allen June 21 1836 | 59 |
Copyright | |
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