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
| John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 396 pages
..."Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will [shall] 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... | |
| John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1893 - 394 pages
...administration, will [shall] be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignif1cance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through...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... | |
| John Torrey Morse - Presidents - 1893 - 396 pages
...and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. "Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will [shall] be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 72 pages
...anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, 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... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 184 pages
...national boundary upon which to divide." • SECOND ANNUAL MESSAGE, DEC. I, 1862. " 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... | |
| James Grant Wilson - Presidents - 1894 - 696 pages
...done by constitutional action, concluding his message with this impassioned appeal: "Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this congress and...through which we pass will light us down in honor or in dishonor to the latest generation. We — even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility.... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...reunion, however much of blood and treasure the separation might have cost. . . . Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and...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... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 270 pages
...reunion, however much of blood and treasure the separation might have cost. . . . Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and...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... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 782 pages
...anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and...fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, LETTERS AND STATE PAPEBS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN 277 I in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We... | |
| William James Potter - Sermons, American - 1895 - 474 pages
...rise with the occasion . . . We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. . . . No personal significance or insignificance can spare...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... | |
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