 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 pages
...close. We are not enemies, but friends. Wo must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every luiUlc-liold und patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - Political parties - 1892 - 930 pages
...Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect and defend it.' "I am loth volution or rebellion, on the every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | 1899 - 652 pages
...close. We are not enemies, lint friends. We must not be enemies. Though may have strained, it most not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords...our nature. " Mr. Lincoln read his inaugural," says Senator Harlan in his unpublished "Recollections of Abraham Lincoln," " in a clear, distinct, and musical... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 270 pages
...destroy the 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....affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 448 pages
...destroy the 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....affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | Robert M. King - School management and organization - 1894 - 348 pages
...to destroy the government, while I have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends....affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | George Parker Winship - Cibola, Seven Cities of - 1894 - 182 pages
...the 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....affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - 1894 - 346 pages
...there are fewer and finer passages of literature than the close of Lincoln's first message: "I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriotic grave to every loving heart and hearth-stone all over this broad land,... | |
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I am loath 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, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living... 
