Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln ...H.W. Bell, 1903 - Всего страниц: 399 Advertising matter: p. 391-399. |
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... hope that , on more mature reflection , you will view the public interest as a paramount consideration , and therefore determine to let the worst come . I here assure you that the candid statement of facts on your part , however low it ...
... hope that , on more mature reflection , you will view the public interest as a paramount consideration , and therefore determine to let the worst come . I here assure you that the candid statement of facts on your part , however low it ...
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... hope I am over wary ; but if I am not , there is even now something of ill omen amongst us . I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country - the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions in ...
... hope I am over wary ; but if I am not , there is even now something of ill omen amongst us . I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country - the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions in ...
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... hope of the lovers of freedom throughout the world . I know the American people are much attached to their government ; I know they would suffer much for its sake ; I know they would endure evils long and patiently before they would ...
... hope of the lovers of freedom throughout the world . I know the American people are much attached to their government ; I know they would suffer much for its sake ; I know they would endure evils long and patiently before they would ...
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... hope there is no sufficient reason . We hope all danger may be overcome ; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous . There are now , and will hereafter be , many causes , dangerous in their ten ...
... hope there is no sufficient reason . We hope all danger may be overcome ; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous . There are now , and will hereafter be , many causes , dangerous in their ten ...
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... hope , they will be read of , and recounted , so long as the Bible shall be read ; but even granting that they will , their influence cannot be what it heretofore has been . Even then they cannot be so universally known nor so vividly ...
... hope , they will be read of , and recounted , so long as the Bible shall be read ; but even granting that they will , their influence cannot be what it heretofore has been . Even then they cannot be so universally known nor so vividly ...
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Стр. 183 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government...
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.