 | Melancthon Woolsey Stryker - 1896 - 200 pages
...gates are closed ! Once more I cite Abraham Lincoln: "We cannot escape history. The fiery trial thro which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation " — to honor, noble one ! Contrasted with the achievements of mere conquerors, how poor is all their... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 818 pages
...country. Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance...honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The... | |
 | Joseph Patterson Smith - 1898 - 1180 pages
...appeal: We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal insignificance can spare one or another of us. The...honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We— even we, here — have the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure... | |
 | Robert Dickinson Sheppard - Presidents - 1899 - 136 pages
...Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. Born 1814. Died 1869. congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance...pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how... | |
 | Grand Army of the Republic - United States - 1899 - 1204 pages
...remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance nor insignificance can spare us. The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. The way is plain—a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless."... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 278 pages
...country. " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance...honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save tjifttiBMb The... | |
 | William C. King - Biography - 1900 - 680 pages
...Congress. " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance...in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure... | |
 | John Watson Foster - United States - 1900 - 556 pages
...wisdom, and, with an evident consciousness of the greatness of the deed, he closed with these words : " The fiery trial through which we pass will light us...honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. . . . We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth. The way is plain, peaceful, generous,... | |
 | Frederick William Holls - International Peace Conference - 1900 - 608 pages
...Abraham Lincoln, ' we cannot escape history. We, of this Conference and of this Committee, will be remembered in spite of ourselves — no personal significance...or insignificance can spare one or another of us.' chapter v Let me ask the honorable members of this Committee speech of Mr. to approach the question... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Constitutional history - 1901 - 496 pages
...country. " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. "We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance...trial through which we pass will light us down, in honour or dishonour, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget... | |
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Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light... 
