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... away that temple must fall unless we , their descendants , supply their places with other pillars , hewn from the solid quarry of sober reason . Passion has helped us , but can do so no more . It will in future be our enemy .
... away that temple must fall unless we , their descendants , supply their places with other pillars , hewn from the solid quarry of sober reason . Passion has helped us , but can do so no more . It will in future be our enemy .
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that I would not be a candidate again , more from a wish to deal fairly with others , to keep peace among our friends , and to keep the district from going to the enemy , than for any cause personal to myself ; so that , if it should so ...
that I would not be a candidate again , more from a wish to deal fairly with others , to keep peace among our friends , and to keep the district from going to the enemy , than for any cause personal to myself ; so that , if it should so ...
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First , it is to be done by a more vigorous prosecution of the war in the vital parts of the enemy's country ; and after apparently talking himself tired on this point , the President drops down into a half - despairing tone , and tells ...
First , it is to be done by a more vigorous prosecution of the war in the vital parts of the enemy's country ; and after apparently talking himself tired on this point , the President drops down into a half - despairing tone , and tells ...
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Mr. Speaker , I adopt the suggestion of a friend , that General Cass is a general of splendidly successful charges -charges to be sure , not upon the public enemy , but upon the public treasury . He was Governor of Michigan Territory ...
Mr. Speaker , I adopt the suggestion of a friend , that General Cass is a general of splendidly successful charges -charges to be sure , not upon the public enemy , but upon the public treasury . He was Governor of Michigan Territory ...
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I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world ; enables the enemies of free institutions with plausibility to taunt us as hypocrites ; causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity ...
I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world ; enables the enemies of free institutions with plausibility to taunt us as hypocrites ; causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity ...
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| Title | Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln ... Issue 2 of The unit books The unit books, no.2 |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Publisher | H.W. Bell, 1903 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 9 Jan 2008 |
| Length | 399 pages |
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