The Table Talk of Abraham LincolnF. A. Stokes, 1894 - 154 pages |
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... tion is common to all vigorous , aspiring men , but there is a settled and general belief , or rather per- ception , that anything in the nature of personal or selfish ambition was burned away in the furnace through which he passed and ...
... tion is common to all vigorous , aspiring men , but there is a settled and general belief , or rather per- ception , that anything in the nature of personal or selfish ambition was burned away in the furnace through which he passed and ...
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... if he had allowed himself to place the aboli- tion of slavery first , serving a part instead of the whole , then the whole would have been lost , slavery would not have been abolished and the result of the 12 Abrabam Lincoln .
... if he had allowed himself to place the aboli- tion of slavery first , serving a part instead of the whole , then the whole would have been lost , slavery would not have been abolished and the result of the 12 Abrabam Lincoln .
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... , but the earth abideth forever . That por- tion of the earth's surface which is owned and inhabited by the people of the United States , is well adapted to be the home of one national family , 20 Abraham Lincoln . 20.
... , but the earth abideth forever . That por- tion of the earth's surface which is owned and inhabited by the people of the United States , is well adapted to be the home of one national family , 20 Abraham Lincoln . 20.
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... tion " : 66 Well , I think the boy can do us more good above ground than under ground . " On pardoning twenty - four deser- tions at once , all of whom were sentenced to be shot , he said to a general who objected , " Mercy to the few ...
... tion " : 66 Well , I think the boy can do us more good above ground than under ground . " On pardoning twenty - four deser- tions at once , all of whom were sentenced to be shot , he said to a general who objected , " Mercy to the few ...
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... tion . It is very nearly true , however , that he rarely told a joke or even a good story for its own sake , -for mere amusement . Their value to him was rather illustrative , or to sharpen the point of an argument , or to expose a ...
... tion . It is very nearly true , however , that he rarely told a joke or even a good story for its own sake , -for mere amusement . Their value to him was rather illustrative , or to sharpen the point of an argument , or to expose a ...
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Page 9 - 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...
Page 146 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 19 - Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
Page 132 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of these offences, which in the providence of God must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 102 - I do the very best I know how — the very best I can ; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Page 12 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 144 - I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Page 11 - 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 80 - I hold that notwithstanding all this there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man.
Page 43 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.