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  "If this country cannot be saved without giving up the principle of
  Liberty, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this
  spot than surrender it."

      _From Mr. Lincoln's Speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia,
      February 21, 1861._

  "I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and
  half free."

      _Springfield, Illinois, June, 1858._

  "I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and
  the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with
  the original idea for which the Revolution was made."

      _Trenton, New Jersey, February 21, 1861._

  "Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure
  purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear
  and with manly hearts."

      _Message, July 5, 1861._

  "In giving freedom to the slaves, we assure freedom to the free;
  honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve."

      _Message, December 1, 1862._

  "I hope peace will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to
  be worth the keeping in all future time."

      _Springfield Letter, August 26, 1863._

  "The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here;
  but it can never forget what the brave men, living and dead, did
  here."

      _Speech at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863._

  "I shall not attempt to retract or modify the Emancipation
  Proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is
 