...in Memories and Studies (New York: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1912), 42, 57-8. Compare Lincoln: "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its...we must live through all time, or die by suicide." Abraham Lincoln, "The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions," Address before the Young Men's Lyceum...

...take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher."3 Not that Americans were isolated from the world. From the earliest years of the Republic,...

...force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be...freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."2 America cannot fall. But — even if the worst that you fear comes to pass, there are two...

...nation, and it is true for people. In 1838, with a prophetic voice, Abraham Lincoln said, "At what point is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer,...cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we ourselves must be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we must live through all times,...

...This book includes the great man's actual words from the time he was an attorney until after the war. "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its...we must live through all time, or die by suicide." Behind The Blue And The Gray Delia Ray The soldier's life in the civil war, including details and quotes....

...March 30, 1863] 129 President Lincoln also warned, "If danger ever reaches us, it must spring up from amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction...lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher." 13° I believe Abraham Lincoln -was correct. It is our grievous national sins that have separated us...

...means by which fraternal feeling and the political institutions of self-government can be sustained: At what point then is the approach of danger to be...we must live through all time, or die by suicide. (1.1 09) How substantial and compelling is Lincoln's case? Americans have inherited, he says, "a system...

...force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be...we must live through all time, or die by suicide.'" science and technology,'34 can tell us what is wrong with this prophecy;'" but only the prudent man...

...force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be...we must live through all time, or die by suicide. I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of illomen, amongst us. I mean...

...warning in the Springfield Lyceum address that the real danger to American institutions was internal. "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its...freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."88 The secession crisis culminated the debate over the nature of the Union. The South tried...