#Speech To the Youngman&039;s Lyceum of Springfield (1838)

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First Principles: If Destruction Be Our Lot, We Must Ourselves Be Its Author and Finisher. As A Nation of Freemen, We Must Live Through All Time, Or Die By Suicide

“If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.“ – Abraham Lincoln Lincoln spoke these words in the 1838 Springfield Lyceum address that the Democrats would rather us not be aware of or its more popular paraphrase of this speech. This speech may be found here: Speech to the Young Men’s Lyceum of…