Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln ...H.W. Bell, 1903 - 399 páginas Advertising matter: p. 391-399. |
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... friends to recommend me . My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of the country ; and , if elected , they will have conferred a favor upon me for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compensate . But , if the ...
... friends to recommend me . My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of the country ; and , if elected , they will have conferred a favor upon me for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compensate . But , if the ...
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... friendship be- tween us . I wish an answer to this , and you are at liberty to publish both , if you choose . [ From an address before the young men's lyceum of Spring- field , Illinois , 27 January 1837. ] As a subject for the remarks ...
... friendship be- tween us . I wish an answer to this , and you are at liberty to publish both , if you choose . [ From an address before the young men's lyceum of Spring- field , Illinois , 27 January 1837. ] As a subject for the remarks ...
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... friends , or with too few , and those few too weak to make their friend- ship effectual . At such a time , and under such circum- stances , men of sufficient talent and ambition will not be wanting to seize the opportunity , strike the ...
... friends , or with too few , and those few too weak to make their friend- ship effectual . At such a time , and under such circum- stances , men of sufficient talent and ambition will not be wanting to seize the opportunity , strike the ...
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... Friend Mary : I have commenced two letters to send you before this , both of which displeased me before I got half done , and so I tore them up . The first I thought was not serious enough , and the second was on the other extreme ...
... Friend Mary : I have commenced two letters to send you before this , both of which displeased me before I got half done , and so I tore them up . The first I thought was not serious enough , and the second was on the other extreme ...
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... , Springfield , Illinois , 16 August 1837. ] Friend Mary : You will no doubt think it rather strange that I should write you a letter on the same day on which we parted , and I can only account for it 19 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
... , Springfield , Illinois , 16 August 1837. ] Friend Mary : You will no doubt think it rather strange that I should write you a letter on the same day on which we parted , and I can only account for it 19 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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Página 183 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government...
Página 121 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races; that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people...
Página 288 - Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.
Página 273 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Página 254 - A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability. "One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.
Página 114 - I have no purpose directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Página 134 - It is the eternal struggle between these two principles, right and wrong, throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, ' You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.
Página 105 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Página 187 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Página 298 - There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when I came of age, I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three, but that was all.