In this post, we’re sure you will like the golden sayings of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States.
I am sure I bring a heart true to the work. For the ability to perform it, I must trust in that Supreme Being who has never forsaken this favored land, through the instrumentality of this great and intelligent people. With out that assistance I shall surely fail; with it I cannot fail.
I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.
I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. I have pondered over the toils that were endured by the officers and soldiers of the army who achieved h that Independence. I have often inquired of of myself what great. was that. principle or idea kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not mere miller of the separation of the Colonies from the mother land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, ed hope, to the world, for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weight would be lifted from the shoulders of all men. This is the sentiment embodied in the declaration of Independence. Can this Country be saved upon that basis? If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.
This nation, shall have a new birth of freedom, and government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail, by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views and boldest action to bring a speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history and cherished memories are vindicated, and its happy future fully assured and rendered inconceivably grand.
It is true that, while hold myself, without mock modesty, the humblest of all individuals that have ever been elevated to the Presidency, I have a more difficult task to perform than any one of them. You have generously tendered me the united support of the great Empire State. For this, in be- half of the nation-in behalf of the present and future of the nation-in behalf of civil and religious liberty for all time to come, most gratefully do thank you.
A house divided against itself can net stand. I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the the house to fall, but I do expect it will Union to be dissolved I do not expect cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.
Let us resolve that the martyred dead shall not have died in vain.
The struggle of to-day is not altogether for to-day; it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the firmer and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.
No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any Merial hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the highest god, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as Sud gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds and care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphans; to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Whatever shall tend to turn our thoughts from the unreasoning and uncharitable passions, prejudices and jealousies incident to a great national trouble such as ours, and to fix them on the vast and long-enduring consequences, for weal or for woe, which are to result from the struggle, and especially to strengthen our reliance on the Supreme Being for the final triumph of the right, cannot but be well for us all.
I cannot but know what you all know, that without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the father his country, and so feeling I cannot but turn and look for the support without which it will be impossible for me to perform that great task. al turn, then, and lock to the great American people, and to that God who has never forsaken them.
A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of Washington. Ho never would have succeeded except for the aid of Divine Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I feel that I cannot succeed without the same Divine aid which sustained him, and on the same Almighty Being I place my reliance for support.
As a private citizen the Extortive could not have consented that these institutions shall perish; much less could he, in betrayal of so vast and so sacred a trust as these free people have confided to him. He felt that he had no moral right to shrink, or even to count the chances of his own life, in what may follow. In full view of his great responsibility, he has so far done what he has deemed his duty.
I repeat the declaration made a year age, that while I remain in my position, I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the acts of Congress. If the people should, by whatever made or means, make it an executive duty to enslave such persons, another, and note, must be the instrument to perform it.
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