 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) - 1893 - 464 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;...will forever applaud and God must forever bless." July 4th, 1863, after Gettysburg, the President in a proclamation of six lines announced the great... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - Presidents - 1894 - 696 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Terrington Calas, Steve Bachmann - Art - 2002 - 202 pages
...embody the glories and agonies of that period with impressive eloquence: In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike...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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Ronald C. White - History - 2002 - 256 pages
...light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. ... In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike...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
...the American mission in guaranteeing equality to all human beings: "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike...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,... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - Electronic books - 2007 - 344 pages
...of mankind to any narrow interest of their own." — Woodrow Wilson "In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free, — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve." — Abraham Lincoln "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."... | |
 | 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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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. 
