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... position before the public , what Lincoln said : " I stand where I do because some man must stand there , but there are twenty others that might as well have been leaders as myself . " On the whole , we are not ashamed to present to the ...
... position before the public , what Lincoln said : " I stand where I do because some man must stand there , but there are twenty others that might as well have been leaders as myself . " On the whole , we are not ashamed to present to the ...
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... position at the 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 ...
... position at the 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 ...
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... position in his party . The work done was usually of a local character , of course , its most important departments being that of the improvement of internal communi- cation by railroad and canal , and that of education . But even on ...
... position in his party . The work done was usually of a local character , of course , its most important departments being that of the improvement of internal communi- cation by railroad and canal , and that of education . But even on ...
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... position by his own good qualities , in the eight years of his life ending with his thirty- fifth . It was a great achievement for a man no older , and so destitute of outside help . For four years Mr. Lincoln now remained a hard- working ...
... position by his own good qualities , in the eight years of his life ending with his thirty- fifth . It was a great achievement for a man no older , and so destitute of outside help . For four years Mr. Lincoln now remained a hard- working ...
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... position as a debater . He declined a re - election ; tried for but did not obtain the commissionership of the Land Office at Washington ; declined appointments as Secretary and as Governor of Oregon Territory ; returned to his home and ...
... position as a debater . He declined a re - election ; tried for but did not obtain the commissionership of the Land Office at Washington ; declined appointments as Secretary and as Governor of Oregon Territory ; returned to his home and ...
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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.