 | Donald J. Meyers - 2005 - 284 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Jason Porterfield - 2004 - 68 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Robert Bray - 2005 - 334 pages
...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...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 these... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - 2005 - 462 pages
...nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that...the end, dare to do our duty, as we understand it. When Mr. LINCOLN had concluded his address, during the delivery of which he was frequently applauded,... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - 2006 - 945 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - 2005 - 284 pages
...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... | |
 | Larry D. Mansch - 2005 - 246 pages
...destruction to the government nor of dungeons to ourselves." Lincoln shouted above wild cheering, "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that...us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."28 Lincoln's words boomed like a cannon shot across the Northeast. Greeley wrote that "no man ever... | |
 | Elizabeth B. Crist Assistant Professor of Musicology University of Texas at Austin - 2005 - 267 pages
...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... | |
 | Martha Zoller - 2005 - 209 pages
...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,...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,... | |
 | 2004 - 516 pages
...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. — Henry... | |
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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. 
