{"id":1796,"date":"2010-02-12T13:19:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T20:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/12\/the-speech-that-changed-the-world\/"},"modified":"2010-02-12T13:19:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T20:19:13","slug":"the-speech-that-changed-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/12\/the-speech-that-changed-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Speech That Changed The World"},"content":{"rendered":"

“House Divided” Speech by Abraham Lincoln<\/a><\/p>\n

On June 16, 1858, more than 1,000 Republican delegates met in the Springfield, Illinois, statehouse for the Republican State Convention. At 5 p.m. they chose Abraham Lincoln as their candidate for the U.S. Senate, running against Democrat Stephen A. Douglas. At 8 p.m. Lincoln delivered this address to his Republican colleagues in the Hall of Representatives. The title comes from a sentence in the speech’s introduction, “A house divided against itself cannot stand,” which paraphrases a statement by Jesus in the New Testament.<\/p>\n

Even Lincoln’s friends believed the speech was too radical for the occasion. His law partner, William H. Herndon, thought that Lincoln was morally courageous but politically incorrect. Herndon said Lincoln told him he was looking for a universally known figure of speech that would rouse people to the peril of the times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click the link above to read Lincoln’s world-changing speech (Harry Jaffa’s phrase<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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