 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
 | Thomas E. Schneider - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 241 pages
...and act anew. We must disenthrall our selves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and...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... | |
 | Eric J. Sundquist - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 262 pages
...war itself — even though true freedom for African Americans lay far in the future: Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...anew. We must disinthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history. We, of this Congress and this Administration,...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... | |
 | Gordon Lloyd - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 446 pages
...history that great Republican, Abraham Lincoln, said: "Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We... will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal...in honor or dishonor to the latest generation... We — even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility. We shall nobly save or meanly lose... | |
 | Ian Bellany - History - 2013 - 250 pages
...for our deliberation. I quote, paraphrasing slightly: We cannot escape history. We of this meeting will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal...or another of us. The fiery trial through which we are passing will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We say we are for Peace.... | |
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