 I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way ; and though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I believe I have made some marks which will tell for...  Lincoln and Herndon - Page 236by Joseph Fort Newton - 1910 - 367 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
...a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way. ... I believe I have made some marks which will tell for...the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone." That cause, he vowed to Henry Ashbury, "must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even, one hundred... | |
 | James F. Simon - History - 2006 - 337 pages
...hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had no other way; and though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I...the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone." Lincoln was only half right in his self-appraisal. He was justly proud of his campaign against the... | |
 | William D. Pederson, Thomas T. Samaras, Frank J. Williams - Biometry - 2007 - 216 pages
...hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way; and though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I...the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone." Lincoln had clarified the issues between Republicans and northern Democrats more clearly than ever... | |
 | Norman Schofield - Political Science - 2006 - 3 pages
...on the great and desirable questions of the age, which I could have had in no other way; and though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I...have made some marks which will tell for the cause of liberty long after I am gone. (220) 7 Holzer (1993: 373). In percentage terms, these are 49.7 percent,... | |
 | Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way; and though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I believe that I have made some marks which will tell for the cause of liberty long after I am gone."122 His... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 476 pages
...out ol view, and shall bc forgolten, I belicvc I havc made somc marks whic h will c.ut \t lii 1\ \rEs tell for the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone." And he joked; he was like the boy who stubbed his toe, "It hurt too bad to laugh, and he was too big... | |
 | Philip L. Ostergard - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 293 pages
...hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I cold have had no other way; and though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I...for the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone. CW III: 339-340 (339) -& -k -k Following is a letter to Henry L. Pierce in which Lincoln declines an... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Illinois - 2008 - 433 pages
...hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way." He had made "some marks which will tell for the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone." But gone, at least politically, was what he expected to be. "I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten,"... | |
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