Ken burns quoted Abraham Lincoln when are enemy drinks from the Ohio river.full quote please?

Answer:

It's from his address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois on January 27, 1838.

A fuller version which I got from goodreads.com is:

"From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide."

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