 Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for...  Abraham Lincoln, the Lawyer-statesman - Page 186by John Thomas Richards - 1916 - 260 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1922 - 638 pages
...invasion of our own territory. We believe, with Mr. Lincoln, that no combination of foreign armies could, by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge or on Pike's Peak, in a trial of a thousand years. Granting, however, that the enemy should be able... | |
 | Lucian Lamar Knight - 1923 - 356 pages
...All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with the treasure of the earth back of them, and with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge Mountains." England tried it, and she lost her colonies. Spain... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 498 pages
...Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined,...a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue 1 1 . Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected?... | |
 | Daniel Kilham Dodge - 1924 - 198 pages
...eulogy of our country is more suggestive of Mr. Jefferson Brick than of Lincoln, as we know him now: "All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa, combined...earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, Jjith a Bonaparte for a commander, could noVby force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - 1926 - 528 pages
..."Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined,...on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years." With this he connected the solemn, quiet murmur: "At what point then is the approach of danger to be... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1928 - 670 pages
...military attacks? 'Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of earth (our own excepted) in their military chest,...commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio gistT, Nov. 24, 1837. The Mayor's statement was reproduced from the Alton Spectator. 1 Illinois State... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1928 - 668 pages
...and institutions. Whence may we expect the approach of peril? From foreign military attacks? 'Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force... | |
 | United States. War Policies Commission - 1931 - 432 pages
...and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth in their military chest, with a Bonaparte as a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Kidge, in a trial of a thousand years." In spite of all modern inventions, plus those which the ingenuity... | |
 | 1954 - 420 pages
...Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! > All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined,...on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. "At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must... | |
 | 1916 - 612 pages
...Shall we expect some trans-Atlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined...on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. — Lincoln at Springfield, 111., Jan. 1837. Let the people be reminded that "eternal vigilance is... | |
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