Footnotes
[621:1] Thamus . . . uttered with a loud voice his message, "The great Pan is dead."—Plutarch: Why the Oracles cease to give Answers.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 1809-1865.
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
Speech, June 16, 1858.
Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Address, New York City, Feb. 21, 1859.
In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,—honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
Second Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 1, 1862.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.[622:1]
Speech at Gettysburg, Nov. 19, 1863.
With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.[622:2]
Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865.