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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. "
Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 284
by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 544 pages
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The American Civil War: An Anthology of Essential Writings

Ian Frederick Finseth - History - 2006 - 648 pages
...make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can...gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. This country, with its institutions, belongs...
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Why We War: The Human Investment in Slaughter and the Possibilities of Peace

Al Smith - History - 2006 - 474 pages
...a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate? Gregory Clark Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens...gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to term John Stuart Mill Confidence in the principles of an enemy must remain even...
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Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery

Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them." In light of this, Lincoln asked, "can treaties be more faithfully enforced between...gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you."93 Lincoln turned to the recent work...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...that intercourse more advantageous, or more satisfactory, after separation than before f Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws ?...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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The Wizard and the Warrior: Leading with Passion and Power

Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal - Business & Economics - 2011 - 256 pages
...principle. He argued forcefully against war on the practical ground that it was unnecessary and fruitless: "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."48 He closed with a passionate, poetic...
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One Nation, Indivisible?: A Study of Secession and the Constitution

Robert F. Hawes - Political Science - 2006 - 357 pages
...that intercourse more advantageous, or more satisfactory, after separation than before! Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can...enforced between aliens, than laws can among friends?. . . This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall...
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Lincoln's Defense of Politics: The Public Man and His Opponents in the ...

Thomas E. Schneider - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 224 pages
...that intercourse more advantageous, or more satisfactory, after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can...faithfully enforced between aliens, than laws can among friends?24 It would prove easy for the states that seceded from the Union at this time to unite on...
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Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years

Carl Sandburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 476 pages
...presence, and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this . . . 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. This country, with its institutions,...
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Abraham Lincoln: Friend of the People

Clara Ingram Judson - Literary prizes - 2007 - 212 pages
...cannot remove our respective sections one from each other, nor build an impassable wall between. . . . Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and...no gain on either you cease fighting, the identical old questions . . . are again upon you. . . . Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time . . . Intelligence,...
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House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War

Stephen William Berry - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 318 pages
...rise or fall, but their relation was permanent. "Suppose you go to war," Lincoln reminded them all; "you cannot fight always; and when after much loss...gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions . . . are again upon you." It would be four years before Lincoln's words were fully understood....
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