Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings, Volume 1Century Company, 1907 - United States |
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... answer , If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us ; it cannot come from abroad . If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher . As a nation of freemen we must live through all time , or die by suicide ...
... answer , If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us ; it cannot come from abroad . If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher . As a nation of freemen we must live through all time , or die by suicide ...
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... answer is simple . Let every American , every lover of liberty , every well - wisher to his posterity swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country , and never to tolerate their ...
... answer is simple . Let every American , every lover of liberty , every well - wisher to his posterity swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country , and never to tolerate their ...
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... answer this , farewell . A long life and a merry one attend you . But if you conclude to write back , speak as plainly as I do . There can be neither harm nor danger in saying to me anything you think , just in the manner you think it ...
... answer this , farewell . A long life and a merry one attend you . But if you conclude to write back , speak as plainly as I do . There can be neither harm nor danger in saying to me anything you think , just in the manner you think it ...
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... answer . They choose , so far as I can learn , to treat the throwing away of $ 405,000 once a year as a matter entirely too small to merit their Democratic notice . I now come to the proposition that it would be less secure than a ...
... answer . They choose , so far as I can learn , to treat the throwing away of $ 405,000 once a year as a matter entirely too small to merit their Democratic notice . I now come to the proposition that it would be less secure than a ...
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... answer the charge that the money will be stolen fully if they can show that they will bring the offenders to punishment . Not so . Will the punishment of the thief bring back the stolen money ? No more so than the hanging of a murderer ...
... answer the charge that the money will be stolen fully if they can show that they will bring the offenders to punishment . Not so . Will the punishment of the thief bring back the stolen money ? No more so than the hanging of a murderer ...
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Page 265 - 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 625 - Washington, imploring men to unsay what Washington did. Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 532 - 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 539 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?
Page 446 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 421 - 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 615 - ... free states? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively. Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and belabored...
Page 249 - 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 658 - My Friends : No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
Page 178 - The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do. for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities.