 | Frank Van der Linden - History - 2007 - 332 pages
...problem of slavery: The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with...case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow citizens, we cannot escape... | |
 | Peter Schweizer, Wynton C. Hall - Political Science - 2007 - 188 pages
...land has changed since the Supreme Court decision of 1883. As Lincoln once observed: "The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with...our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must first disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save the Union." To my friends from the South,... | |
 | Michael Gelb, Sarah Miller Caldicott - Business & Economics - 2007 - 328 pages
...the laws of nature." "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with...case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew." These lines, from Abraham Lincoln's Second Annual Message to Congress, were delivered on December 1,... | |
 | Douglas B. Sosnik, Ron Fournier, Matthew J. Dowd - Business & Economics - 2007 - 276 pages
...change. "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present," Lincoln said. "The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with...case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew." This book will help twenty-first-century American leaders think anew about the people they serve. We... | |
 | Albert Gore - Political Science - 2007 - 332 pages
...consequences that the scientific community has warned us about. Abraham Lincoln once said, "The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country."... | |
 | Derek Evans - 194 pages
...in his annual message of 1862: "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." I am hopeful that the call to "think... | |
 | Jeffrey C. Herndon - Philosophy - 2007 - 207 pages
...years later, Abraham Lincoln would consider the disorder of his historical circumstance and assert, "As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew."15 It was in that same spirit that Machiavelli undertook to address the problem of order. In... | |
 | Organization of American Historians - United States - 2008 - 354 pages
...we all do better?" The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise —...case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape... | |
 | Philip L. Ostergard - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 293 pages
..."can we do better?" The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with...case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall our selves, and then we shall save our country. . . . Lincoln used his rare ability... | |
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. 
