Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings, Volumen1Century Company, 1907 |
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... stand by this that I wish to cut your acquaintance . I mean no such thing . What I do wish is that our further acquaintance shall depend upon yourself . If such further acquaintance would contri- bute nothing to your happiness , I am ...
... stand by this that I wish to cut your acquaintance . I mean no such thing . What I do wish is that our further acquaintance shall depend upon yourself . If such further acquaintance would contri- bute nothing to your happiness , I am ...
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... stand an equal chance , precisely , of being capable and honest with bank officers selected by the same rule . We further say that with however much care selections may be made , there will be some unfaithful and dishonest in both ...
... stand an equal chance , precisely , of being capable and honest with bank officers selected by the same rule . We further say that with however much care selections may be made , there will be some unfaithful and dishonest in both ...
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... standing with other States and the world . ( 7 ) It is a party measure for party purposes , from which no practical good ... stand by , the mournful spec- tators of the ruin it will cause . Signed by 35 members , among whom was Abraham ...
... standing with other States and the world . ( 7 ) It is a party measure for party purposes , from which no practical good ... stand by , the mournful spec- tators of the ruin it will cause . Signed by 35 members , among whom was Abraham ...
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... stand up an exceeding great army . " " Come from the four winds , O breath ! and breathe upon these slain that they may live . " If the relative grandeur of revolutions shall be estimated by the great amount of human misery they ...
... stand up an exceeding great army . " " Come from the four winds , O breath ! and breathe upon these slain that they may live . " If the relative grandeur of revolutions shall be estimated by the great amount of human misery they ...
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... stand just as they did when I saw you . Baker is certainly off the track , and I fear Hardin in- tends to be on it . • In relation to the business you wrote me of some time since , I sup- pose the marshal called on you ; and we think it ...
... stand just as they did when I saw you . Baker is certainly off the track , and I fear Hardin in- tends to be on it . • In relation to the business you wrote me of some time since , I sup- pose the marshal called on you ; and we think it ...
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Página 265 - 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. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Página 625 - Washington, imploring men to unsay what Washington did. 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 dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Página 532 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. " A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Página 539 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?
Página 446 - 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 421 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Página 615 - ... free states? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively. Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and belabored...
Página 249 - 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 658 - My Friends : No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
Página 178 - The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do. for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities.