Abraham Lincoln Quotes
All honor to Jefferson—the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there that to-day and in all coming days it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States (Republican, IL), Letter to Boston Republicans on Jefferson’s Birthday, April 1859
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Jefferson’s original was: We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all …
The organization sent 2,100 volunteers to fight for South American independence from Spain.
Jefferson, who drafted the declaration, asked Franklin to edit it—see {604295}. This phrase was suggested as a replacement for Jefferson’s original: “We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable.”
Cochrane became the Admiral in Chief of 2 Different South American Nations—Peru and Brazil—fighting for their independence. Incredibly enough, he was able to form idealistic freedom fighters with no naval experience into navies which defeated both the Spanish and Portuguese fleets at a time when those countries had world class navies. His achievements on behalf of the South Americans are often regarded as the most remarkable naval achievements in history.
The glorious spectacle of eighteen millions of people, struggling to burst their chains and be free.
The entire speech was translated into Spanish and read to great applause to Latin American revolutionary regiments.
Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
