Abraham Lincoln
L for liberty (freedom)Quotes:
___“The Constitution which guarantees that the citizen of each State shall be entitled to all privileged and immunities of citizens in the several States?” ___“That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” Summary:I think what he is trying to say in the first quote is that all men are created equal and questioning the fact because in the south not all people are treated equally. He is announcing in the second quote is that all people in 1863 are forever free from then on. U for union (joining the states into one U.S.government)Quotes:
___“Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it-break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?” ___“It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that Resolves and Ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances…” ___“With malice toward none; with charity toward 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 his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.” Summary:In the quote he is stating that just because one state decides against something it dosent give them permission to completely disobey something with out all of those who made i it. It is telling the states that no state can simply leave the union or legally rebel . It is stating that because the war is over the u.s is whole again and everyone should care for each other and help each other. |
E for equality (fairness, equal opportunity)Quotes:
___“No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall in consequence of any law or regulation therein be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.” ___”Four score and seven years ago our Fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” Summary: In the first quote he is stating that just because some one that is a slave escaped into the north they will not be free but if caught they will be returned. The second quote is stating that all men are created equally and free. G for government (the
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First Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln made his first inaugural address in order to try to ease the south when he talking about about not interfering with the south and coexisting .
The Gettysburg Address
The most brilliant and most well thought of his speeches where he addressed the issue of the civil war and how it was necessary for the nation to improve itself and grow as a truly free nation.
Second Inaugural Address
Was delivered shortly before the civil war ended and he spoke his visions of peace,freedom,and prosperity for after the war but he also focused on the fact of how the states should support each other after the war and a world without slavery.