The Lincoln Memorial: Album-immortelles: Original Life Pictures, with Autographs, from the Hands and Hearts of Eminent Americans and Europeans, Contemporaries of the Great Martyr to Liberty, Abraham Lincoln. Together with Extracts from His Speeches, Letters and SayingsG. W. Carleton & Company, 1882 - 543 pages |
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... moral principle , physical and intellectual vigor , in the forefathers are qualities likely to be manifested in the descendants . Fools are not the fathers or mothers of great men . I claim for Lincoln , humble as was the station to ...
... moral principle , physical and intellectual vigor , in the forefathers are qualities likely to be manifested in the descendants . Fools are not the fathers or mothers of great men . I claim for Lincoln , humble as was the station to ...
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... moral sense , the religious convictions of the people , and the political principles on which the government was founded . But having been tolerated , it soon became an organ- ized aggressive power , and , later , it became the master ...
... moral sense , the religious convictions of the people , and the political principles on which the government was founded . But having been tolerated , it soon became an organ- ized aggressive power , and , later , it became the master ...
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... , and animated by the moral sublimity of his great theme , he proclaimed his determination , ever thereafter , " to speak for freedom , and against slavery , until every- where the sun shall shine , the rain shall fall.
... , and animated by the moral sublimity of his great theme , he proclaimed his determination , ever thereafter , " to speak for freedom , and against slavery , until every- where the sun shall shine , the rain shall fall.
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... moral courage , and great per- sonal magnetism , made him a natural leader , and gave him personal popularity . Lincoln was also now a thoroughly trained speaker . He had contended successfully at the bar , in the legisla- ture , and ...
... moral courage , and great per- sonal magnetism , made him a natural leader , and gave him personal popularity . Lincoln was also now a thoroughly trained speaker . He had contended successfully at the bar , in the legisla- ture , and ...
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... moral victory . " PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS . And now , with an attempt to sketch very briefly some of his peculiar personal characteristics , I must close . This great Hercules of a man had a heart as kind and tender as a woman ...
... moral victory . " PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS . And now , with an attempt to sketch very briefly some of his peculiar personal characteristics , I must close . This great Hercules of a man had a heart as kind and tender as a woman ...
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Page 222 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. "My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery.
Page 365 - 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 102 - 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 365 - Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth...
Page 340 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 254 - 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 304 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected.
Page 268 - Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?
Page 226 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the public speeches of him who now addresses you.
Page 136 - Our fathers, when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now.