 | charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 pages
...know how to save it. We — even we here — hold the power and uear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free...preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the lust, best hope of earth. Other means may succeed, this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful,... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 772 pages
...we do know how to save it. 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 in what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last hope of earth. Other means may succeed... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - Presidents - 1893 - 396 pages
...know how to save it. We — even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,...will forever applaud, and God must forever bless." Beautiful and impressive as was this appeal, it persuaded few or none. In fact, no effort on the President's... | |
 | John Samuel Apperson - Hospitals - 2001 - 684 pages
...ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history... .In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free...save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth." Quoted in Long, 292. Gen. [John Buchanan] Floyd has caused our men to suffer. He has only a few soldiers... | |
 | Bobby Delaughter - Law - 2001 - 320 pages
...prosperous State and Nation. It reminded me of Abraham Lincoln's words over a century earlier: "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free...honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve." Lincoln and Evers correctly recognized the dehumanizing effects of racism on whites, too. White guilt... | |
 | Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 186 pages
...do know how to save it. We— even we here— hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free...The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way in which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless. (Lincoln 688) Antithesis... | |
 | Terrington Calas, Steve Bachmann - Art - 2002 - 202 pages
...Lincoln's pithy phrases embody the glories and agonies of that period with impressive eloquence: In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free...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
...through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. ... In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free...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
...linked to the success of the American mission in guaranteeing equality to all human beings: "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free...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,... | |
 | Stig Förster, Jorg Nagler - History - 2002 - 724 pages
...concession, however, was coupled with a call for action. "In giving freedom to the slave," he insisted, "we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in...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.... | |
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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. Other... 
