 We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.  Anecdotes of Public Men - Page 171by John Wien Forney - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) - 1893 - 456 pages
...freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free. Other means may succeed; this could not, cannot fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just;...followed, the world will forever applaud and God must forever»bless." July 4th, 1863, after Gettysburg, the President in a proclamation of six lines announced... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 854 pages
...power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve....will forever applaud, and God must forever bless. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. December 1, 1862. December 3, 1862. — MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. To the Senate and House... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 72 pages
...power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve....will forever applaud, and God must forever bless. • Recommendation to Congress, March 6, 1862, in Regard to a Gradual and Compensated Emancipation1... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - Presidents - 1894 - 684 pages
...power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve....will forever applaud, and God must forever bless." It was hardly to be expected, however, that any action would be taken by congress before the lapse... | |
 | Stig Förster, Jorg Nagler - History - 2002 - 724 pages
...a call for action. "In giving freedom to the slave," he insisted, "we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve....save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth." American nationalism was again part of an ideal for the entire world. 27 Lincoln, Works. 5 : 338-9.... | |
 | Terrington Calas, Steve Bachmann - Art - 2002 - 202 pages
...period with impressive eloquence: In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve....save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread... | |
 | Ronald C. White - History - 2002 - 256 pages
...dishonor, to the latest generation. ... In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve....nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best, hope of earth.7 Lincoln shared with his contemporaries a belief in the special destiny of America. Where he... | |
 | Ethan M. Fishman - Business & Economics - 2002 - 248 pages
...guaranteeing equality to all human beings: "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve....shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope on earth."40 While en route to his inauguration, Lincoln delivered a speech at Trenton, New Jersey,... | |
 | William D. Pederson - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 304 pages
...Lincoln, FDR concluded: "This generation will 'nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth .... The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way...the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless.'"39 By January of 1939, Abraham Lincoln had become a New Deal Democrat. On January 7, 1939,... | |
 | Avard Tennyson Fairbanks - 2002 - 184 pages
...the power and bear the responsibility in giving freedom to the slaves, we assure freedom to the free, we shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth." Upon returning from Virginia to Washington following the surrender of Robert E. Lee, Lincoln found... | |
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