 | William D. Hall - English language - 1898 - 326 pages
...Logic never can be strict where books are scarce, and where information is oral. — MACAULAY. Logic 5. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom...honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. — LINCOLN. OR, (which) O He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. — FRANKLIN. He that• goes... | |
 | John F. Slater Fund - African Americans - 1898 - 738 pages
...consummate forecast which characterized his utterances and actions, used this striking language : " In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to...honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve." What was joyously assumed cannot be abdicated as a task or an obligation. Security against imminent... | |
 | 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...save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth." American nationalism was again part of an ideal for the entire world. 27 Lincoln, Works. 5 : 338-9.... | |
 | 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."... | |
 | Avard Tennyson Fairbanks - 2002 - 184 pages
...escape history: We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. We — even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility in giving freedom to the slaves, we assure freedom to the free, we shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth."... | |
 | Joy Hakim - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 194 pages
...rei'olution [of] the public mind. What did he mean by that? And what did Abraham Lincoln mean when he said, In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free? In 1862 Robert Smalls (inset) was a slave pilot on the Confederate steamer Planter (below). One night... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...supporting him. "We — even we here — hold the power, and bear the responsibility," he warned them. "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom...save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth." He assured an abolitionist delegation headed by Wendell Phillips in January, 1863, that although he... | |
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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. 
