Bugle Calls of Liberty: Our National Reader of PatriotismA reader of historical documents and poems by Americans which express their love for the country and concern for its welfare during critical historical events. |
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... soldiers were called because they promised to be ready to serve at a minute's notice . Their arms and ammunition were stored in Concord , ready for use . In Boston were the British troops under General Gage , sent to govern ...
... soldiers were called because they promised to be ready to serve at a minute's notice . Their arms and ammunition were stored in Concord , ready for use . In Boston were the British troops under General Gage , sent to govern ...
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... soldier and noble southerner , beloved by his men as few leaders in war have ever been beloved , was still at the head of the forces in the South . Lincoln was terribly worried . But even in those trying days , he was free from hard and ...
... soldier and noble southerner , beloved by his men as few leaders in war have ever been beloved , was still at the head of the forces in the South . Lincoln was terribly worried . But even in those trying days , he was free from hard and ...
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... soldiers , worn out by twenty consecutive days and nights of fighting , ex- hausted , without sleep , without proper food , after fighting day and night for all that period , an- swered the call of their chief . They rallied to his call ...
... soldiers , worn out by twenty consecutive days and nights of fighting , ex- hausted , without sleep , without proper food , after fighting day and night for all that period , an- swered the call of their chief . They rallied to his call ...
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... soldiers of the Marne fought as they did ? It is because they were the soldiers of a democratic army , in which the most capable man can climb to the top , in which the highest officers are the friends and comrades of their soldiers ...
... soldiers of the Marne fought as they did ? It is because they were the soldiers of a democratic army , in which the most capable man can climb to the top , in which the highest officers are the friends and comrades of their soldiers ...
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... soldiers to fight for independ- ence ; when that democracy was struggling for its life , could you stand aloof ? No ; that was the one thing impossible . Come to us , then : come as brothers to the fight we are fighting for right and ...
... soldiers to fight for independ- ence ; when that democracy was struggling for its life , could you stand aloof ? No ; that was the one thing impossible . Come to us , then : come as brothers to the fight we are fighting for right and ...
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Bugle Calls of Liberty: Our National Reader of Patriotism Gertrude Van Duyn Southworth,Paul Mayo Paine No preview available - 2017 |
Bugle Calls of Liberty: Our National Reader of Patriotism (Classic Reprint) Gertrude Van Duyn Southworth No preview available - 2018 |
Bugle Calls of Liberty: Our National Reader of Patriotism (1917) Gertrude Van Duyn Southworth,Paul Mayo Paine No preview available - 2008 |
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Page 78 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Page 80 - Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced; the old flag met his sight. " Halt ! "• — the dust-brown ranks stood fast.
Page 17 - ... the gloom and the light The fate of a nation was riding that night; And the spark struck out by that steed in his flight. Kindled the land into flame with its heat.
Page 34 - Divinity which shapes our ends. The injustice of England has driven us to arms ; and, blinded to her own interest for our good, she has obstinately persisted, till Independence is now within our grasp. We have but to reach forth to it, and it is ours. Why...
Page 139 - With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the step I am taking and of the grave responsibilities which it involves, but in unhesitating obedience to what I deem my constitutional duty, I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States...
Page 145 - A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations. No autocratic Government could be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants.
Page 147 - We are accepting this challenge of hostile purpose because we know that in such a government, following such methods, we can never have a friend; and that in the presence of its organized power, always lying in wait to accomplish we know not what purpose, there can be no assured security for the democratic governments of the world.
Page 40 - ... lines. Hats off! The colors before us fly; But more than the flag is passing by...
Page 148 - The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind.
Page 72 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...