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The House Divided Speech was an address given by senatorial candidate and future president of the United States Abraham Lincoln, on June 16, 1858, at what was then the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, after he had accepted the Illinois Republican Party's nomination as that state's US senator. The nomination of Lincoln was the final item ...
The Cooper Union speech or address, known at the time as the Cooper Institute speech, [1] was delivered by Abraham Lincoln on February 27, 1860, at Cooper Union, in New York City. Lincoln was not yet the Republican nominee for the presidency, as the convention was scheduled for May. It is considered one of his most important speeches.
Lincoln strongly rejected proposals to cooperate with Douglas against Buchanan, and he won the Republican nomination to oppose Douglas. Accepting the nomination, Lincoln delivered his House Divided Speech, saying "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
Lincoln in this address coined the phrase that the United States is the "last best hope of Earth." This phrase has been echoed by many US presidents: Franklin D. Roosevelt closed his 1939 State of the Union Address by quoting these words from Lincoln. [3] Lyndon B. Johnson quoted it in a special message to Congress on equal rights. [4]
As the nation stood divided, President Lincoln fought to unify the nation and regain the South. ... Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863. RELATED: History of the Lincoln Memorial.
Lincoln's soon-to-be Secretary of State, William H. Seward, later made suggestions that softened the original tone somewhat and contributed to the speech's famous closing. [5] Lincoln's speech had originally ended with the sentence, "With you, and not with me, is the solemn question of 'Shall it be peace or a sword?'" [6] Seward wrote that ...
Jackson Hole symposium: Jerome Powell gave a hawkish speech that focused on lowering inflation. What does hawkish versus dovish mean?
At her first White House briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made an unusual claim about inflation that has stung American shoppers for years: Leavitt said egg prices have continued to ...