"This is the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birthday of Washington. We are met to celebrate this day. Washington's is the mightiest name of earth — long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on."
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Abraham Lincoln, closing words of an address before the Washingtonian Temperance Society, Springfield, Illinois (22 February 1842); published in the Sangamon Journal at Springfield, Illinois (25 February 1842); the entire speech was published in a letter edition of the Sangamon Journal (26 March1842)
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George Washington
1732 – 1799
1. Präsident der USA (1789-1797)
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