 In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful,...  Abraham Lincoln and Constitutional Government - Page 70by Bartow Adolphus Ulrich - 1916Full view - About this book
 | United States. President - United States - 1897 - 858 pages
...world knows we do know how to save it. We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to...honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 820 pages
...world knows we do know how to save it. We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to...honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 790 pages
...save it. We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the stave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed ; this could... | |
 | Terrington Calas, Steve Bachmann - Art - 2002 - 202 pages
...indicate, Lincoln's pithy phrases embody the glories and agonies of that period with impressive eloquence: In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom...honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. It may seem strange that any men... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - Electronic books - 2007 - 344 pages
...common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own." — Woodrow Wilson "In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom...honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve." — Abraham Lincoln "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."... | |
 | Ronald C. White - History - 2002 - 256 pages
...trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. ... In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom...honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best, hope of earth.7 Lincoln shared with his contemporaries... | |
 | Stig Förster, Jorg Nagler - History - 2002 - 724 pages
...concession, however, was coupled with a call for action. "In giving freedom to the slave," he insisted, "we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth." American nationalism was again part... | |
 | Elisabeth Glaser, Hermann Wellenreuther - History - 2002 - 332 pages
...and Jacksonian democracy, he hailed the United States as "the last, best hope of earth" and declared: "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free." The Civil War tested whether a "nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that... | |
 | Amnon Carmi, Harry Wax - Hospital patients - 2002 - 494 pages
...which is achieved in turn through the mechanism of free choice. It was Abraham Lincoln who stated that "in giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free", and it was Albert Schweitzer who claimed that consistency requires us to show respect for other life... | |
 | Howard Jones - History - 2002 - 260 pages
...new way of life that more nearly matched the idealistic vision of the Declaration of Independence. "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free." The destruction of slavery, he had come to realize, constituted a vital step in saving the Union.34... | |
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