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" This government cannot much longer play a game in which it stakes all, and its enemies stake nothing. Those enemies must understand that they cannot experiment for ten years trying to destroy the government, and if they fail still come back into the Union... "
Presidents, Diplomats, and Other Mortals: Essays Honoring Robert H. Ferrell - Page 22
by Robert H. Ferrell - 2007 - 350 pages
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Complete Works, Volume 7

Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 394 pages
...and in many, if not all, the minor documents issued by the Executive since the inauguration. mending. This government cannot much longer play a game in...if they fail still come back into the Union unhurt. If they expect in any contingency to ever have the Union as it was, I join with the writer in saying,...
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Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865, Volume 64

Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 280 pages
...broken eggs. The sooner she does so, the smaller will be the amount of that which will be past mending. This government cannot much longer play a game in...if they fail still come back into the Union unhurt. If they expect in any contingency to ever have the Union as it was, I join with the writer in saying,...
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Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters ..., Volume 2

Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 782 pages
...broken eggs. The sooner she does so, the smaller will be the amount of that which will be past mending. This government cannot much longer play a game in...if they fail still come back into the Union unhurt. If they expect in any contingency to ever have the Union as it was, I join with the writer in saying,...
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Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters ..., Volume 2

Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 854 pages
...smaller will be the amount of that which will be past mending. This government cannot much longer plav a game in which it stakes all, and its enemies stake...if they fail still come back into the Union unhurt. If they expect in any contingency to ever have the Union as it was, I join with the writer in saying,...
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Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865

Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...broken eggs. The sooner she does so, the smaller will be the amount of that which will be past mending. This government cannot much longer play a game in which it stakes all, and its enemies o stake nothing. Those enemies must understand that they cannot experiment for ten years trying to...
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Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865

Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 270 pages
...broken eggs. The sooner she does so, the smaller will be the amount of that which will be past mending. This government cannot much longer play a game in which it stakes all, and its enemies o stake nothing. Those enemies must understand that they cannot experiment for ten years trying to...
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Abraham Lincoln, the Man of the People

Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
...broken eggs. The sooner she does so, the smaller will be the amount of that which will be past mending. This government cannot much longer play a game in...they fail still come back into the Union unhurt." The next dramatic incident came August 20, when military reverses left the President seemingly further...
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Salmon Portland Chase

Albert Bushnell Hart - Antislavery movements - 1899 - 488 pages
...broken eggs. The sooner she does so, the smaller will be the amount of that which will be past mending. This government cannot much longer play a game in...they fail still come back into the Union unhurt." This pungent statement indicated Lincoln's purpose to restore the States as soon as they were sufficiently...
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Abraham Lincoln, the Man of the People

Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
...broken eggs. The sooner she does so, the smaller will be the amount of that which will be past mending. This government cannot much longer play a game in...they fail still come back into the Union unhurt." The next dramatic incident came August 20, when military reverses left the President seemingly further...
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Anecdotal Lincoln

Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 pages
...broken eggs. The sooner she does so, the smaller will be the amount of that which is past mending. This Government cannot much longer play a game in...they fail, still come back into the Union unhurt. If they expect, in any contingency, to ever have the Union as it was, I join with the writer in saying,...
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