 | Patrick J. Buchanan - 2007 - 316 էջ
..."mystic chords 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....must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone,... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - 2007 - 476 էջ
...the reasonings, explanations, watchwords that ended Lincoln's long silence. He finished: "I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to even' living heart and... | |
 | Paul F. Boller - 2007 - 444 էջ
...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. We must...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone,... | |
 | Clara Ingram Judson - 2007 - 212 էջ
...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...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
 | 532 էջ
...there are few finer passages In literature than the close of Lincoln's inaugural address : " I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriotic grave to every loving heart and hearthstone... | |
 | Frank MacHovec - 2007 - 206 էջ
...lead us safely out of this wilderness." In his 1861 inaugural address he said: "We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over... | |
 | Matthew S. Holland - 2007 - 340 էջ
...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...must not break our bonds of affection, The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlef1eld, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone,... | |
 | David J. Eicher - 2007 - 376 էջ
...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...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone,... | |
 | Timothy Rasinski, Lorraine Griffith - 2007 - 179 էջ
...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...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone,... | |
 | William Safire - 2008 - 888 էջ
...his editing by turning around Seward's suggested "I close," which was too abrupt for what followed: I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends....must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone,... | |
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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 not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory,... 
