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" Passion has helped us, but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason — cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason — must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence. "
Mr. Lincoln's Wars: A Novel in Thirteen Stories - Page 134
by Adam Braver - 2004 - 320 pages
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln: From His Birth to His Inauguration as ..., Volume 2

Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 630 pages
...but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason — cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason — must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence. Let those materials be moulded into general intelligence, sound morality, and, in particular, a reverence...
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Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865

Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason — cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason — must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence. Let those materials be moulded into general intelligence, sound morality, and, in particular, a reverence...
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Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865

Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 270 pages
...but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason — cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason — must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence. Let those materials be moulded into general intelligence, sound morality, and, in particular, a reverence...
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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: 1832-1843

Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1905 - 354 pages
...but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason — cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason — must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence. Let those materials be moulded into general intelligence, sound morality, and in particular, a reverence...
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Abraham Lincoln

Henry Bryan Binns - 1907 - 428 pages
..." it can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason — cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason — must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence." " Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles...
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The Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 148 pages
...but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason — cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason — must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence. Let these materials be moulded into general intelligence, sound morality, and in particular a reverence...
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This Sacred Trust: American Nationality 1778-1898

Paul C. Nagel - History - 1971 - 398 pages
...us, but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence." Thus, America's fulfillment demanded that an acquiescent stewardship embrace sound morality and reverence...
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Abraham Lincoln: A Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings

Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence. Let those materials be moulded into general intelligence, sound morality and, in particular, a reverence...
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The Political Culture of the American Whigs

Daniel Walker Howe - Political Science - 1979 - 414 pages
...us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence. Let those materials be moulded into general intelligence, sound morality, and in particular, a reverence...
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The Politics of Individualism: Parties and the American Character in the ...

Lawrence Frederick Kohl - History - 1991 - 279 pages
..."Passion," he said, "has helped us; but can do so no more. . . . Reason, cold, calculating unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence." In his attempt to substitute reason for passion he turned to the same aids, the same solutions, as...
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