 Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end,...  Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 209by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...Divine rule, and calling, not the sinners, but the righteous to repentance — such as invocations of WASHINGTON, imploring men to unsay what WASHINGTON...the end, dare to do our duty, as we understand it. When Mr. LINCOLN had concluded his address, during the delivery of which he was frequently applauded,... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
...radical Republicans in the audience were captivated. When he came to the dramatic ending pledge — "LET US HAVE FAITH THAT RIGHT MAKES MIGHT, AND IN THAT...END, DARE TO DO OUR DUTY AS WE UNDERSTAND IT" — the audience erupted in thunderous applause. After Lincoln spoke, several of the event organizers took... | |
 | David Dark - Christianity and culture - 2005 - 204 pages
...Party slogan when he articulated a faith-based initiative that might not play too well in our day: "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that...end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." The quotability of this particular sentence often distracts from the morally subversive quality of Lincoln's... | |
 | Robert Bray - History - 2005 - 334 pages
...sophisticated Easterners," yet he had their full attention "from the start." His ringing conclusion, "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that...the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it," was followed by a tremendous and "long-sustained" ovation. 48 It would be fitting symmetry if these... | |
 | Martha Zoller - Political Science - 2005 - 209 pages
...and years later echoed Washington's remarks when he urged the crowd at the Cooper Union Institute to "have faith that right makes might, and in that faith,...end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." The idea "right makes might" is simply another way of expressing the American Theory. Accordingly, God... | |
 | Jason Porterfield - History - 2004 - 68 pages
...audience to resist efforts to expand slavery into the territories and to restrict it to the South. "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that...the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it," he concluded. Lincoln's speech helped him to gain ground on other Republican candidates. His position... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...wrong, as we do, can we yield to them? Can we cast our votes with their view, and against our own? Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that...the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it* 8 Thunderous applause! This was 1860, the year of the presidential election. The Democratic National... | |
 | Richard N. Swett - Architects - 2005 - 404 pages
...Chronology 1859-1876," The Cooper Union, http://www.cooper .edu/history/extended/hioooo2.htm. 142 "Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that...the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), address, Cooper Union, New York City, February 27,1860, in John Bartlett,... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...wrong, as we do, can we yield to them? Can we cast our votes with their view, and against our own? Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that...us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it*8 Thunderous applause! This was 1860, the year of the presidential election. The Democratic National... | |
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