Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong. That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world.
They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings. The will of God prevails. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book. In the untimely loss of your noble son, our affliction here, is scarcely less than your own. So plain that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master does constantly know that he is wronged.
With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing. They managed to eat their bread, leaving the toil of producing it to the uneducated. This was not an insupportable evil to the working bees, so long as the class of drones remained very small. But now, especially in these free States, nearly all are educated—quite too nearly all, to leave the labor of the uneducated, in any wise adequate to the support of the whole.
It follows from this that henceforth educated people must labor. Otherwise, education itself would become a positive and intolerable evil. No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive. There is no dispute upon that point. I want every man to have a chance. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
I most emphatically, in this instance, made a fool of myself. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of the Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed.
With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss. Better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite. I am used to it. Let him attempt to force the process and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at the length falls into his lap.
Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much. He makes possible the enforcement of them, else impossible. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence. Glorious consummation!
Hail fall of Fury! Reign of Reason, all hail! One is by trying to demonstrate it upon reason; and the other is to show that great men in former times have thought so and so, and thus to pass it by the weight of pure authority.
It is accompanied by another quote attributed to the Confederate general Robert E. Lee, which has been disputed in the past though several experts told Reuters it is similar to remarks Lee did supposedly make.
In the American Civil War , eleven southern states seceded from the United States to form the Confederate States of America where slavery was protected. Lincoln was the President of the Union made up of northern states, which ultimately won the war here , here.
Lincoln did write the words in the social media posts in a letter to American journalist and former New York Tribune editor, Horace Greeley, on Aug. If I could save the union without freeing any slaves I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
Lincoln had already chosen the last option freeing some slaves and leaving others in the Emancipation Proclamation, which he proposed to his cabinet one month before writing this letter, but had not yet made that public, as explained to Reuters via email by Christian McWhirter, Lincoln Historian at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum here and Harold Holzer, co-chairman of The Lincoln Forum and former chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and co-chair of the U.
Lincoln Bicentennial Commission here. McWhirter concurred that the quote does come from the letter to Greeley but said it is better understood within its historical and written context. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
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