 | Nelson Appleton Miles - History - 1896 - 616 pages
...represent the earnest appeal and wise counsel contained in his first inaugural : " We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot-grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1897 - 392 pages
...as the declared purgpse of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself. . . . I am loth 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,... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - American literature - 1897 - 592 pages
...government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. I am about to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave, to every loving heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 792 pages
...Government, while / shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...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. We must...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 Rice Carpenter - American literature - 1898 - 494 pages
...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. We must...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,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 442 pages
...Probably there are few finer passages in literature than the close of Lincoln's inaugural address: " ' I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends....affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriotic grave to every loving heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 - 1899 - 122 pages
...destroy the government, while /shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." 1 I am loth 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 hearth-stone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 pages
...the government, while /shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." l ^"l am loth 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 hearth-stone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | Ronald C. White - History - 2002 - 256 pages
...in their ancient music when breathed upon by the guardian angel of the nation. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land,... | |
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I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth 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,... 
