...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 1 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume One is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...e how much it means to a nation to have as the two foremost figures in its history men like Washington and Lincoln. It is good for every man in any wa... ...is a very poor thing, whether for nations or individu- als, to advance the history of great deeds done in the past as an excuse for doing poorly in th... ...tion or any other nation had to pass in the nine- teenth century. Theodore Roosevelt Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, N. Y., September 22, 1905. INTRODUCTOR... ...ings of Abraham Lincoln are associated with those of Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, and of the other “Founders of the Republic,” not that Lincoln sho... ...ates have been placed in these volumes may be mentioned here. To President Roosevelt, to Mr. Schurz and to Mr. Choate, the editor, for himself, for th... ...nd Lincoln was elected President by a majority of fifty-seven votes in the electoral colleges. The result of the election had hardly been declared whe... ...e 65 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One cannot sleep forever,”—and Franklin, Adams, Hamilton, and Patrick Henry were all utterly opposed to it...

...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence...