1858 · Skopia

Showing 10 works across all media from 1858

Speech · Political speech

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.

Abraham Lincoln

1858

★ 7.0

Poem · Magazine

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past!

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Chambered Nautilus · 1858

★ 5.3

Personal journal

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.

Abraham Lincoln

1858

★ 3.7

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spencer

State Tamperings with Money and Banks · 1858

★ 3.5

Political debate

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln-Douglas Debates · 1858

★ 2.3

Political debate

There is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln-Douglas Debates · 1858

★ 2.1

Speech · Political speech

This government was instituted to secure the blessings of freedom, and…slavery is an unqualified evil to the negro, to the white man, to the soil, and to the State.

Abraham Lincoln

1858

★ 2.0

I was half mad with beauty on that day.

1858

★ 1.9

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every Man His Own Boswell · 1858

★ 1.9

"Genius" (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).

1858

★ 1.1