 | Paul F. Boller - 2007 - 444 strani
...a shorter, but more moving statement, containing, as so often with his writing, a touch of poetry: "I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends....affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | Philip Abbott - 2007 - 198 strani
...of a nation, probably only in wartime, or on the eve of war, and then only by a Lincoln: I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | Clara Ingram Judson - 2007 - 212 strani
...land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. . . . "I am loathe to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land... | |
 | Stephen William Berry - 2007 - 318 strani
...peroration, and rightly so, for surely it is one of the prettier things Lincoln ever said: "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | Randall Norman Desoto - 2007 - 266 strani
...government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it. ' "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
 | Patrick J. Buchanan - 2007 - 316 strani
...of memory" that tied us together, and to our patriot fathers who had fought side by side. I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | David J. Eicher - 2007 - 376 strani
...exploration of the standoff of North versus South, he spoke to the secessionists: "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | Matthew S. Holland - 2007 - 340 strani
...they think he will take the country on the charged issue of slavery, he pleads, We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...affection, The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlef1eld, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | Timothy Rasinski, Lorraine Griffith - 2007 - 176 strani
...Providence on a just cause." President Abraham Lincoln, Inaugural Address, March 1861 "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,... | |
 | James Oakes - 2007 - 366 strani
...enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies," Lincoln said. "Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,... | |
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I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory,... 
