„Nimm die Gnade weg und du hast nichts zu retten. Beseitigen Sie den freien Willen und Sie haben nichts zu retten.“

Antrittsrede, 20. Januar 1961, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum: Antrittsrede des Präsidenten John Fitzgerald Kennedy http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/Historic-Speeches/Multilingual-Inaugural-Address/German.aspx
Original engl.: "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum: Inaugural Address, 20 January 1961 http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/BqXIEM9F4024ntFl7SVAjA.aspx
Amtsantrittsrede (1961)

in einem Brief an Horace Greeley vom 22. August 1862. Zitiert von Berthold Seewald Wie Abraham Lincoln die Sklavenhalter provozierte http://www.welt.de/kultur/history/article10708318/Wie-Abraham-Lincoln-die-Sklavenhalter-provozierte.html?wtmc=RSS.Kultur.Geschichte. Welt Online, 5. November 2010.
Original englisch: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union." - Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5 http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;cc=lincoln;type=simple;rgn=div1;q1=greeley;singlegenre=All;view=text;subview=detail;sort=occur;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A848

Julie oder Die neue Héloïse / Julie
Briefe

Proklamation an die Frauen. In: Neue Rheinische Zeitung, No. 301, Köln 19. Mai 1849, [nn_nrhz301_1849/1]
Andere Werke

Der Sohn der Magd

Wilhelm Tell, I, 1, letzter Vers / Ruodi, S. 16
Wilhelm Tell (1804)