Lincoln Day Program for the Schools of California: February Twelfth, Nineteen Hundred and NineSuperintendent of Public Instruction, 1909 - 35 páginas |
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Abraham Lincoln American battle beauty behold birthday boys and girls brave brings a picture broad land California celebrated charity cheers for Lincoln civil cold and dead colors common decoration dedicated deeds drum duty elected Fallen cold fame famous father February 12th FEBRUARY TWELFTH flag friends Gettysburg address half free half slave Hard-Work Plan Hardin County hear heart heroes honest honor hundredth hurrah Illinois immortal Kentucky labor laid Legislature letter liberty Lincoln was born Lincoln's name little drummer boy little soldiers living martyred President master of ceremonies memory minutes 5 minutes mother mystic chords name that brings nation never noble o'er patriotic President Lincoln Recitation Republic Sacramento schoolhouse schoolroom Senator ship Sixth Pupil slavery song soul Springfield stand stars Stephen Douglas teacher Tell There's a name thing to-day toil tribute true trust Twas Lincoln Uncle Abe Union War Department wave words
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Página 16 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Página 14 - 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...
Página 15 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 33 - ... swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is...
Página 33 - O Captain! My Captain! O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But 6 heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red. Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain!
Página 13 - Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Página 14 - Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap; let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation...
Página 32 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all' are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame. The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Página 16 - Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total and final banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks, seems to me not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues ; and, I believe, all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.
Página 18 - No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty; none less inclined to take or touch aught which they have not honestly earned.