| Elizabeth B. Crist Assistant Professor of Musicology University of Texas at Austin - 2005 - 267 páginas
...cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one or even one hundred defeats. . . . Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that...us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it."37 As had Browder and Sandburg, Copland quotes Lincoln to cast the Civil War as one battle in a... | |
| Jason Porterfield - 2004 - 68 páginas
...audience to resist efforts to expand slavery into the territories and to restrict it to the South. "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that...us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it," he concluded. Lincoln's speech helped him to gain ground on other Republican candidates. His position... | |
| Donald J. Meyers - 2005 - 284 páginas
...wrong, as we do, can we yield to them? Can we cast our votes with their view, and against our own? Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that...us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it* 8 Thunderous applause! This was 1860, the year of the presidential election. The Democratic National... | |
| Doris Kearns Goodwin - 2006 - 945 páginas
...radical Republicans in the audience were captivated. When he came to the dramatic ending pledge — "LET US HAVE FAITH THAT RIGHT MAKES MIGHT, AND IN THAT...US, TO THE END, DARE TO DO OUR DUTY AS WE UNDERSTAND IT" — the audience erupted in thunderous applause. After Lincoln spoke, several of the event organizers... | |
| David Dark - 2005 - 204 páginas
...Party slogan when he articulated a faith-based initiative that might not play too well in our day: "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that...us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." The quotability of this particular sentence often distracts from the morally subversive quality... | |
| Robert Bray - 2005 - 334 páginas
...sophisticated Easterners," yet he had their full attention "from the start." His ringing conclusion, "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that...us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it," was followed by a tremendous and "long-sustained" ovation. 48 It would be fitting symmetry if... | |
| Richard N. Swett - 2005 - 404 páginas
...Chronology 1859-1876," The Cooper Union, http://www.cooper .edu/history/extended/hioooo2.htm. 142 "Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that...us to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), address, Cooper Union, New York City, February 27,1860, in John Bartlett,... | |
| Martha Zoller - 2005 - 209 páginas
...and years later echoed Washington's remarks when he urged the crowd at the Cooper Union Institute to "have faith that right makes might, and in that faith,...us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." The idea "right makes might" is simply another way of expressing the American Theory. Accordingly,... | |
| David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - 2005 - 462 páginas
...two-hour oration with this ringing call for solidarity in the fight to prevent the expansion of slavery: "Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false...us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction of the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and 1 8 //i... | |
| 2004 - 516 páginas
...in no other. — Benjamin Franklin Faith Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that farth let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. — Abraham Lincoln The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. —... | |
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