 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 Channing Briggs - History - 2005 - 396 pages
...motives as Lincoln takes on — confronts and inhabits — the thinking of his audience: 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... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
...the historic nature of the edict. "Fellow-citizens," he had said in his annual message in December, "•we cannot escape history. We of this Congress...down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation." When Joshua Speed next came to visit, Lincoln reminded his old friend of the suicidal depression he... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history.. .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 lose,... | |
 | John William Miller - History - 2005 - 372 pages
...York: Library of America, 1989). Lincoln stated near the close of his 1862 address: "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... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history...the fiery trial through which we pass, will light us 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... | |
 | Jan Johnson-Smith - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 322 pages
...we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. 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. We shall nobly win or meanly lose our last best hope of Earth.' 26 Superficially,... | |
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