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" 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: His Early History, Political Career, Speeches in ... - Page 188
by Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - 1902 - 448 pages
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The Boys Life of Abraham Lincoln

Helen Nicolay - 2004 - 196 pages
...by the Republican party, and brought his speech to a close with the short and telling appeal: "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as \ve understand it." The attention with which it was followed, the applause that greeted its telling...
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Abraham Lincoln

Jeremy Roberts - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 120 pages
...for its beliefs and do what it considered right. "Let us have faith that right makes might," he said, "and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." The crowd leapt to its feet with a tremendous roar. The wild man had won their hearts and minds —...
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The Gospel According to America: A Meditation on a God-blessed, Christ ...

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...the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." The quotability of this particular sentence often distracts from the morally subversive quality of...
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

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...THE END, DARE TO DO OUR DUTY AS WE UNDERSTAND IT" — the audience erupted in thunderous applause. After Lincoln spoke, several of the event organizers...
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Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher

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...
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Leadership by Design: Creating an Architecture of Trust

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,...
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The Lincoln-Douglas Senatorial Debates of 1858: A Primary Source Investigation

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...
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And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil War

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...
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Abraham Lincoln, President-elect: The Four Critical Months from Election to ...

Larry D. Mansch - History - 2005 - 246 pages
...destruction to the government nor of dungeons to ourselves." Lincoln shouted above wild cheering, "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that...us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."28 Lincoln's words boomed like a cannon shot across the Northeast. Greeley wrote that "no man ever...
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And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil War

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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