Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865J. M. Dent & Company, 1894 - 237 pages |
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... considering the great probability that the framers of those laws were wiser than myself , I should prefer not meddling with them , unless they were first attacked by others , in which case I should feel it both a privilege B and a duty ...
... considering the great probability that the framers of those laws were wiser than myself , I should prefer not meddling with them , unless they were first attacked by others , in which case I should feel it both a privilege B and a duty ...
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... Considering the great degree of modesty which should always attend youth , it is probable I have already been more presuming than becomes me . However , upon the subjects of which I have treated , I have spoken as I have thought . I may ...
... Considering the great degree of modesty which should always attend youth , it is probable I have already been more presuming than becomes me . However , upon the subjects of which I have treated , I have spoken as I have thought . I may ...
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... consider her my wife , and this done , all my powers of discovery were put to work in search of perfections in her which might be fairly set off against her defects . I tried to imagine her handsome , which , but for her unfortunate ...
... consider her my wife , and this done , all my powers of discovery were put to work in search of perfections in her which might be fairly set off against her defects . I tried to imagine her handsome , which , but for her unfortunate ...
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... consider to what extent confidence and honours are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people , it appears im- probable that their impression of dishonesty is very dis- tinct and vivid . Yet the impression is common , almost ...
... consider to what extent confidence and honours are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people , it appears im- probable that their impression of dishonesty is very dis- tinct and vivid . Yet the impression is common , almost ...
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... consider the whole difficulty , and determine what is possible and just . We must not be led by excitement and passion to do that which our sober judgments would not approve in our cooler moments . We have higher aims ; we will have ...
... consider the whole difficulty , and determine what is possible and just . We must not be led by excitement and passion to do that which our sober judgments would not approve in our cooler moments . We have higher aims ; we will have ...
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Page 175 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 202 - And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Page 211 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final restingplace for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 104 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 201 - ... the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people...
Page 200 - That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free...
Page 82 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Page 221 - At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed very fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
Page 69 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Page 33 - Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.