A Memorial of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States |
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... authority , it has failed , it has become worthless ; and the sooner it passes into the hands of a wise or generous despot the better . The moment the salvation of a republic rests upon the genius , power , influ- ence , or life of any ...
... authority , it has failed , it has become worthless ; and the sooner it passes into the hands of a wise or generous despot the better . The moment the salvation of a republic rests upon the genius , power , influ- ence , or life of any ...
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... authority in this country is derived , the influences that should control its exercise , the responsibility it involves to the people and the responsibility which it imposes upon them . His whole official life may challenge proof of one ...
... authority in this country is derived , the influences that should control its exercise , the responsibility it involves to the people and the responsibility which it imposes upon them . His whole official life may challenge proof of one ...
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... authority , of seeking to tyrannize over his fellow - citizens , or of abusing his high trust for any selfish purpose , will hereafter be regarded with in- credulity and indignation until they have sunk with their authors into contempt ...
... authority , of seeking to tyrannize over his fellow - citizens , or of abusing his high trust for any selfish purpose , will hereafter be regarded with in- credulity and indignation until they have sunk with their authors into contempt ...
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... authority in England " a state paper , which , for political weight , moral dignity , and unaffected solemnity , has had no equal in our time , " without the conviction that he was indeed a God - fearing and a God - trusting man . In ...
... authority in England " a state paper , which , for political weight , moral dignity , and unaffected solemnity , has had no equal in our time , " without the conviction that he was indeed a God - fearing and a God - trusting man . In ...
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... authority they have defied . The right of military occupation of the territories of the Rebel States , until the inhabitants shall have been en- tirely subdued and brought into submission to the authority of the Government of the Union ...
... authority they have defied . The right of military occupation of the territories of the Rebel States , until the inhabitants shall have been en- tirely subdued and brought into submission to the authority of the Government of the Union ...
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Page 112 - Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 82 - There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
Page 81 - He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh the bow and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariot in the fire.
Page 82 - As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Page 81 - By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation ; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea...
Page 81 - The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he delighteth in his way. "Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.
Page 117 - I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all National Governments. It is safe to assert that no Government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Page 56 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
Page 152 - And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity ; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
Page 131 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him farther ! Lady M.