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" Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always ; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. "
National Jewels: Washington, Lincoln, and the Fathers of the Revolution - Page 66
1865 - 123 pages
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The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln

Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 pages
...; and when after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the indentical questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. " This country, with its institutions, belong to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they...
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Methods of Rhetorical Criticism: A Twentieth-century Perspective

Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 524 pages
...then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory, after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make...gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you. This country, with its institutions,...
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One United People: The Federalist Papers and the National Idea

Edward Millican - History - 292 pages
...remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. . . . Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make...faithfully enforced between aliens, than laws can between friends?"14 These are clearly the sentiments of Publius. In the twentieth century, the clearest...
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Lincoln, the War President: The Gettysburg Lectures

Gabor S. Boritt - History - 1992 - 273 pages
...nothing. In 1861, hoping to discourage civil war, he had told his disgruntled southern countrymen: "suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and...gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old question[s] ... are again upon you." But, to repeat, the president learned. This new war-making...
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Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form

Priscilla Wald - History - 1995 - 418 pages
...then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory, after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make...enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? (AL, 4:269) The reality of secession and the power of anti-amalgamation sentiment prompt Lincoln to...
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Of the People, by the People, for the People and Other Quotations from ...

Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 pages
...reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 3, p. 481. Rutgers University Press ( 1953, 1990). Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and...gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you. "First Inaugural Address," March 4,...
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Speeches that Changed the World

Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make...laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you can not fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on either, you cease fighting,...
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A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War

Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory, after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make...gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you. The dominant theme in the remaining...
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The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation

Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make...laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you can not fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on either, you cease fighting,...
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Presidential Documents: The Speeches, Proclamations, and Policies that Have ...

Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 pages
...then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make...laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you can not fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on either, you cease fighting,...
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