| 01/27/1838 |
... to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor. |
Topics: Freedom, Inspirational, America |
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| 01/27/1838 |
Let reverence for the Laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap. |
Topics: Law |
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| 06/26/1857 |
One after another they have closed the heavy iron doors upon him [African Americans], and now they have him, as it were, bolted in with a lock of a hundred keys … |
Topics: Slavery |
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| 10/30/1858 |
I am not, nor ever have been, connected with the party called the Know-Nothing party, or party calling themselves the America n party. Certainly no man of truth, and I believe, no man [of] good character for truth can be found to say on his own knowledge that I ever was connected with that party. |
Topics: Politics, Morality |
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| 11/20/1860 |
In all our rejoicing let us neither express, nor cherish, any harsh feeling towards any citizen who, by his vote, has differed with us. Let us at all times remember that all America n citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling. |
Topics: Leadership, Politics |
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| 11/20/1860 |
Let us at all times remember that all America n citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling. |
Topics: America |
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| 07/12/1862 |
Room in South America for colonization, can be obtained cheaply, and in abundance; and when numbers shall be large enough to be company and encouragement for one another, the freed people will not be so reluctant to go. |
Topics: Slavery |
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| 02/02/1863 |
The resources, advantages, and powers of the America n people are very great, and they have, consequently, succeeded to equally great responsibilities. |
Topics: America, Morality |
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| 03/18/1864 |
If all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America , it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war. |
Topics: Inspirational, America |
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| 04/18/1864 |
I am responsible … to the America n people, to the Christian world, to History , and on my final account to God. |
Topics: Leadership, History, America |
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