Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature - Unknown

[621:1] Thamus . . . uttered with a loud voice his message, "The great Pan is dead."—Plutarch: Why the Oracles cease to give Answers.

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.