| Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
...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. 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... | |
| Simone Payment - History - 2004 - 68 pages
...civil war. The government will not assail YOU. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. YOU have no oath registered in heaven...solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loathe to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained,... | |
| David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single reason for precipitate action. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the...solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend" it. I am loth [sic] to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have... | |
| Tim Nichols - Fiction - 2005 - 234 pages
...civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven...solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend' it." Few believed that war would come. Few favored it. Few were indifferent about the issues and most favored... | |
| Jason Porterfield - History - 2004 - 68 pages
...government buildings and properties in the South. "You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven...solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend' it," he told the South in his inaugural address. The Confederacy eventually fired the This December 20,... | |
| Mel Friedman, Lina Miceli, Robert Bell, Michael Lee, Sally Wood, Adel Arshaghi, Suzanne Coffield, Michael McIrvin, Anita Price Davis, Research & Education Association, George DeLuca, Joseph Fili, Marilyn Gilbert, Bernice E. Goldberg, Leonard Kenner - Study Aids - 2005 - 886 pages
...civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven...solemn one to ‘preserve, protect, and defend it.” And choice (E) is incorrect because both expressed a willingness to accept their positions of leadership.... | |
| 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... | |
| Herman Cain - Political Science - 2005 - 241 pages
...your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the...most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it." 1863: President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that "all persons held... | |
| 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... | |
| Brian Weiner - Political Science - 2009 - 258 pages
...dismembering of the Union. He closes with a final appeal to affection and memory: 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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