 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...  Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 407by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lincoln Symposium (2001, Lincoln Memorial University) - History - 2003 - 236 pages
...linking past, present, and future in a passage of unsurpassed eloquence and power: Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and...administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves.... The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation....... | |
 | David Sievert Lavender - History - 2003 - 430 pages
...Abraham Lincoln advised a beleaguered North in December 1862, "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us." If we do not learn from history, we are fated to learn the lessons again. What then is this beyond... | |
 | James Panabaker - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 264 pages
...connection with respect to Lincoln's broader vision. "We cannot escape history," the president remarks. "We of this Congress and this Administration will...down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation" (CW 1.810). That the next volume of The Civil War introduces as an epigraph for the whole the quotation... | |
 | China - 1995 - 458 pages
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 | Walter McKenzie - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 208 pages
...Civil War: A Multimedia Investigation MICHAEL HUTCHISON "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history ... The fiery trial through which we pass, will light...down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation." Abraham Lincoln, 1862 UNIT OBJECTIVES Students will be challenged to: • Investigate various aspects... | |
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