Onward and Upward

Islander | 23:42 Thu 02nd Sep 2004 | Phrases & Sayings

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What was the first usage (or origination) of the phrase: Onward and Upward?

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President Abraham Lincoln seems to have coined the phrase when addressing the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society in September 1859.

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Here are his exact words on that occasion..."Let us hope ... that by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away."

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Thanks, Quizmonster. I was unable to find this anywhere!

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