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... head of one of the most powerful nations of the earth was a sign to all who live by labor , that their day is coming . Lincoln was born to the inheritance of hard work , as truly as the poorest laborer's son that digs in our fields . He ...
... head of one of the most powerful nations of the earth was a sign to all who live by labor , that their day is coming . Lincoln was born to the inheritance of hard work , as truly as the poorest laborer's son that digs in our fields . He ...
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... head , which is a greater power in writing than the most artful cler- ices of rhetoric . Lincoln might well say with the apostle , " But though I be rude in speech yet not in knowledge , but we have been thoroughly made man- ifest among ...
... head , which is a greater power in writing than the most artful cler- ices of rhetoric . Lincoln might well say with the apostle , " But though I be rude in speech yet not in knowledge , but we have been thoroughly made man- ifest among ...
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... head , the voice , the plenary agent , of the people of the United States . As such , his life teaches what the war teaches , to wit ; the strength and the magnificent morality of an intelligent people , trained in self - control , in ...
... head , the voice , the plenary agent , of the people of the United States . As such , his life teaches what the war teaches , to wit ; the strength and the magnificent morality of an intelligent people , trained in self - control , in ...
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... head of his nation , during the vastest peril of its existence - while occupying the most prominent , the most powerful , the most respon- sible , the most difficult , and the most dangerous posi- tion upon the whole round world - while ...
... head of his nation , during the vastest peril of its existence - while occupying the most prominent , the most powerful , the most respon- sible , the most difficult , and the most dangerous posi- tion upon the whole round world - while ...
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... head of a committee of clergymen , had been making a vigorous , authoritative appeal to him in Old Testa- ment language , to end all difficulties by emancipation , Lincoln seemed to meditate gravely , and at last an- swered slowly ...
... head of a committee of clergymen , had been making a vigorous , authoritative appeal to him in Old Testa- ment language , to end all difficulties by emancipation , Lincoln seemed to meditate gravely , and at last an- swered slowly ...
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Page 40 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 80 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 78 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.
Page 81 - 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 battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 68 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Page 66 - But I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by.
Page 67 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself.
Page 71 - The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
Page 40 - 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 69 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it.