 | G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 356 pages
...gave Lincoln's mind still more ease in this respect. "Fellow-citizens," he said in 1862, "we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration,...light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation."40 To Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton he read aloud Fitz-Greene Halleck's poem "Marco... | |
 | William D. Pederson - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 304 pages
...Lincoln's message to the nation in 1862, the first year of another American war: Fellow Citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration...The fiery trial through which we pass will light us .... in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. Eighty years after Lincoln delivered that message,... | |
 | Avard Tennyson Fairbanks - 2002 - 184 pages
...think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. We cannot escape history: We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. We — even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility in giving freedom to the slaves,... | |
 | History - 2003 - 260 pages
...is new, so must we think anew and act anew. . . . Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. . . . The fiery trial through which we pass, will light...honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. . . . We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth. . . . The way ... if followed, the... | |
 | Forrest Church - History - 2003 - 196 pages
...as he guided it. "We cannot escape history," Lincoln told his countrymen at the height of the war. "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 — honorable alike in what we give,... | |
 | Charles M. Hubbard - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 270 pages
...past, present, and future in a passage of unsurpassed eloquence and power: Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this 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 generation....... | |
 | James Panabaker - History - 2004 - 264 pages
...connection with respect to Lincoln's broader vision. "We cannot escape history," the president remarks. "We of this Congress and this Administration will...down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation" (CW 1.810). That the next volume of The Civil War introduces as an epigraph for the whole the quotation... | |
 | Walter McKenzie - Education - 2004 - 208 pages
...Civil War: A Multimedia Investigation MICHAEL HUTCHISON "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history ... The fiery trial through which we pass, will light...down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation." Abraham Lincoln, 1862 UNIT OBJECTIVES Students will be challenged to: • Investigate various aspects... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
...nature of the edict. "Fellow-citizens," he had said in his annual message in December, "•we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration,...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... | |
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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... 
