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The brave men , living and dead , who struggled here , have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract . The world will little note nor long remember what we say here , but it can never forget what they did here .
The brave men , living and dead , who struggled here , have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract . The world will little note nor long remember what we say here , but it can never forget what they did here .
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More than half of our people do not live on the farms or on lands and cannot derive a living by cultivating their own property . There is no safety valve in the form of a Western prairie to which those thrown out of work by the Eastern ...
More than half of our people do not live on the farms or on lands and cannot derive a living by cultivating their own property . There is no safety valve in the form of a Western prairie to which those thrown out of work by the Eastern ...
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VERY man has a right to life , and this means that he has also a right to make a comfortable living . He may by sloth or crime decline to exercise that right , but it may not be denied him . Right to Make Living We have no actual famine ...
VERY man has a right to life , and this means that he has also a right to make a comfortable living . He may by sloth or crime decline to exercise that right , but it may not be denied him . Right to Make Living We have no actual famine ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | 12 Americans Speak |
| Editor | John Edwin Pomfret |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Huntington Library, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 24 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 183 pages |
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