 | Grand Army of the Republic - 1901 - 738 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 appland and God must forever... | |
 | John George Nicolay - 1902 - 606 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 the Union. The... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 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,...in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We tay we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union.... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...wasn't for the honour of the thing, I'd rather walk.' 6348 Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history ... t believe that the political struggle is the most important honour or dishonour to the last generatlon. 6349 Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 220 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 the Union. The... | |
 | Hugh Tulloch - History - 1999 - 276 pages
...assistance. ix Fellow citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Congress and administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance...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... | |
 | Marianne Williamson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2000 - 292 pages
...his 1862 Annual Message, echo to us now: "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We . . . will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance...pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation. . . . We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth." Americans... | |
 | Earl J. Hess - History - 2000 - 296 pages
...demonstrated his genius for grasping the moment and urging others to follow his course when he said that the "fiery trial through which we pass, will light...down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. ... In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free. . . . We shall nobly save, or meanly... | |
 | Charlton Heston - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 127 pages
..."We . . . cannot escape history," Lincoln said. "[We] will be remembered in spite of ourselves. . . . The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation." And, "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. We must... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 1995 - 188 pages
..."Fellow-citizens," he warned, "we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance,...light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation."38 If one detects here a conflict in Lincoln's history between individual responsibility... | |
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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... 
