Great Speeches and how to Make ThemFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1911 - 391 pages |
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... citizens , and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty and untried cares before me , my error will be palliated by the motives which misled me , and its consequences be judged by my ...
... citizens , and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty and untried cares before me , my error will be palliated by the motives which misled me , and its consequences be judged by my ...
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... citizens and command the respect of the world . I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my country can inspire ; since there is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists , in the ...
... citizens and command the respect of the world . I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my country can inspire ; since there is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists , in the ...
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... citizen to speak to you to- night on Abraham Lincoln . I am not fitted by ancestry or training to be your teacher to - night , for , as I have stated , I was born a slave . My first knowledge of Abraham Lincoln came in this way : I was ...
... citizen to speak to you to- night on Abraham Lincoln . I am not fitted by ancestry or training to be your teacher to - night , for , as I have stated , I was born a slave . My first knowledge of Abraham Lincoln came in this way : I was ...
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... citizens , were made free , would bring eternal fame within itself , but this is not the only claim that Lincoln has upon our sense of gratitude and appre- ciation . By the side of Armstrong and Garrison , Lincoln lives to- day . In the ...
... citizens , were made free , would bring eternal fame within itself , but this is not the only claim that Lincoln has upon our sense of gratitude and appre- ciation . By the side of Armstrong and Garrison , Lincoln lives to- day . In the ...
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... citizen whom we commemorate to - day , yet a public leader ; a man always foremost in political controversy , but who held no office , and belonged to no political party ; who swayed votes , but who seldom voted , and never for a mere ...
... citizen whom we commemorate to - day , yet a public leader ; a man always foremost in political controversy , but who held no office , and belonged to no political party ; who swayed votes , but who seldom voted , and never for a mere ...
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Page 155 - God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 323 - 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.
Page 323 - 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 it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 318 - These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment.
Page 50 - I appeal to the wisdom and the law of this learned bench to defend and support the justice of their country. I call upon the bishops...
Page 65 - 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. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will...
Page 122 - Every year of its duration has teemed with fresh proofs of its utility and its blessings ; and although our territory has stretched out wider and wider, and our population spread farther and farther, they have not outrun its protection or its benefits. It has been to us all a copious fountain of national, social, and personal happiness.
Page 353 - Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Page 323 - 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...
Page 7 - It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, so called ; but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond 'readin,' -writtn' and cipherin'