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Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865

A work by Abraham Lincoln

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  • What korrents draws from it

    We are not bound to follow everything the founders did; that would reject all progress and current experience, Slavery should be treated as an evil not to be extended, tolerated only where its presence makes that necessary, Right makes might, and in that faith we should dare to do our duty as we understand it …

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    Abraham Lincoln

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Edition korrents quotes
ed. Merwin Roe, 19072
Claims on korrents
71

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. We are not bound to follow everything the founders did; that would reject all progress and current experience (opens korrents.com)1

  2. Slavery should be treated as an evil not to be extended, tolerated only where its presence makes that necessary (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Right makes might, and in that faith we should dare to do our duty as we understand it (opens korrents.com)1

  4. The living must dedicate themselves to the unfinished work, so that government of the people, by the people, for the people does not perish (opens korrents.com)1

  5. One side would make war rather than let the nation survive; the other would accept war rather than let it perish (opens korrents.com)1

  6. Everyone knew that the interest in slavery was somehow the cause of the Civil War (opens korrents.com)1

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  • Abraham Lincoln

Sources

  1. Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 (ed. Merwin Roe, 1907) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 (ed. Merwin Roe, 1907) (gutenberg.org) (opens gutenberg.org)

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