 | Malcolm McGregor Dana - Norwich (Conn. : Town) - 1873 - 438 pages
...while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...strained, it must not break our bonds of affection." The tone of the address and the positions taken in it, commended themselves to the patriotism of the country,... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 pages
...in their ancient music when breathed upon by the guardian angel of the nation. LINCOLN: I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and every patriot grave to every living heart and... | |
 | Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - Law - 2004 - 502 pages
...government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loathe to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
...Lincoln proceeded to recast and sharpen Seward's patriotic sentiments into a concise and powerful poetry: "I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends....must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and... | |
 | Simone Payment - History - 2004 - 68 pages
...government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loathe to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Larry D. Mansch - History - 2005 - 246 pages
...government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend" it. I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend" it. I am loth [sic] to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battle-field and patriot's grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - History - 2005 - 860 pages
...civil war." Then, reaching out once more in a moving and conciliatory gesture, he said: I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Linda LaTourelle, C. C. Milam - Crafts & Hobbies - 2004 - 390 pages
...be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. - Albert Schweitzer We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature. - Abraham... | |
 | Bruce D. Weinstein - Philosophy - 2005 - 200 pages
...Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, which he gave on Monday, March 4, 1861: We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
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I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend " it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory,... 
