Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1Lamb Publishing Company, 1905 |
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... desirable object . No other improvement that reason will justify us in hoping for can equal in utility the railroad . It is a never - failing source of communication between places of busi- ness remotely situated 2 [ Mar. 9 Abraham Lincoln.
... desirable object . No other improvement that reason will justify us in hoping for can equal in utility the railroad . It is a never - failing source of communication between places of busi- ness remotely situated 2 [ Mar. 9 Abraham Lincoln.
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... equal rights ; ' tis ours only to transmit these the former unprofaned by the foot of an invader , the latter undecayed by the lapse of time and untorn by usurpation - to the latest generation that fate shall permit the world to know ...
... equal rights ; ' tis ours only to transmit these the former unprofaned by the foot of an invader , the latter undecayed by the lapse of time and untorn by usurpation - to the latest generation that fate shall permit the world to know ...
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... 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 classes . The ...
... 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 classes . The ...
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... equal force , in its whole length , breadth , and proportions , to the subtreasury . Our opponents say there is no express authority in the Constitu- tion to establish a bank , and therefore , a bank is unconstitutional ; but we with equal ...
... equal force , in its whole length , breadth , and proportions , to the subtreasury . Our opponents say there is no express authority in the Constitu- tion to establish a bank , and therefore , a bank is unconstitutional ; but we with equal ...
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... equal with them in the argument , but we beat them forty to ten , or , which is the same thing , four to one . On examination , it will be found that the absurd rule which prescribes that before we can constitutionally adopt a national ...
... equal with them in the argument , but we beat them forty to ten , or , which is the same thing , four to one . On examination , it will be found that the absurd rule which prescribes that before we can constitutionally adopt a national ...
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Page xxvi - 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. Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.
Page 207 - ... .Then said he unto me, prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, Son of man, and say to the wind, thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
Page xxi - That is the issue that will continue in this country, when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. 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...
Page xxx - Dear Madam : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may...
Page xx - Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends — those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work — who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle...
Page 159 - I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell ; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible ; I must die or be better, it appears to me.
Page xxv - ... discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now ? — now — when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail — if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.
Page 7 - Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
Page 345 - ... it had ever before been thought men could not do— after all this, this same President gives us a long message, without showing us that as to the end he himself has even an imaginary conception. As I have before said, he knows not where he is. He is a bewildered, confounded, and miserably perplexed man. God grant he may be able to show there is not something about his conscience more painful than all his mental perplexity.
Page 51 - Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session, the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same. "They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils.