Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early Greece to the Present Time, Volume 16P. F. Collier & Son, 1905 |
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Page 6563
... 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 institu- tions in their own ...
... 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 institu- tions in their own ...
Page 6578
... true , then , that any right , plainly written in the Constitution , has been denied ? I think not . Happily the human mind is so constituted that no party can reach to the audacity of doing this . Think , if you can , of a single ...
... true , then , that any right , plainly written in the Constitution , has been denied ? I think not . Happily the human mind is so constituted that no party can reach to the audacity of doing this . Think , if you can , of a single ...
Page 6579
... checks and limitations , and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments , is the only true sovereign of a free people . Whoever rejects it , does , of necessity , fly to anarchy LINCOLN 6579.
... checks and limitations , and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments , is the only true sovereign of a free people . Whoever rejects it , does , of necessity , fly to anarchy LINCOLN 6579.
Page 6586
... true and righteous altogether . With malice toward none , with charity for all , with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right , let us finish the work we are in , to bind up the nation's wounds , to care for him who shall ...
... true and righteous altogether . With malice toward none , with charity for all , with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right , let us finish the work we are in , to bind up the nation's wounds , to care for him who shall ...
Page 6587
... true ; and I think , if he will remember accurately , he will be able to recollect that he tried to get me into it , and I would not go in . This I believe it is also true that I went away from Springfield when the convention was in ...
... true ; and I think , if he will remember accurately , he will be able to recollect that he tried to get me into it , and I would not go in . This I believe it is also true that I went away from Springfield when the convention was in ...
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