 | Hugh Tulloch - History - 1999 - 276 pages
...their secretarial assistance. ix Fellow citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Congress and administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves....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 assure... | |
 | Marianne Williamson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2000 - 292 pages
...Lincoln, in his 1862 Annual Message, echo to us now: "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We . . . will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal...pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation. . . . We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth." Americans... | |
 | Earl J. Hess - History - 2000 - 296 pages
...demonstrated his genius for grasping the moment and urging others to follow his course when he said that 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... | |
 | Charlton Heston - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 127 pages
..."We . . . cannot escape history," Lincoln said. "[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." And, "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. We must... | |
 | Howard Pollack - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 734 pages
...Republicans from being compelled to listen to Lincoln's brooding words: 'Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves.' " Notwithstanding Busbey's rhetoric about all the "fine, patriotic and thoroughly American composers,"... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - Social Science - 2000 - 466 pages
...its own termination. First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1861. 1989:217. 3 Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. . . In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give,... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 1995 - 188 pages
...for good or ill, have a hand in choosing their destinies. "Fellow-citizens," he warned, "we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration,...light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation."38 If one detects here a conflict in Lincoln's history between individual responsibility... | |
 | David J Eicher - History - 2002 - 992 pages
...Lincoln tried to summarize the progress of the war and its shifting goals. "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration...pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the last generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations - Iraq - 2002 - 216 pages
...but our only real option is to act. Over a century ago in another conflict Lincoln said, "We cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration...down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation." Those same words apply to us here today. A century ago, Britain stood majestically at the height of... | |
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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... 
