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 a commander, could not, by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
In his Lyceum Address, Lincoln asserts the impossibility of foreign powers conquering the United States by military force.
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