 | Charles Rufus Skinner - Flags - 1900 - 508 pages
...American heart — Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. — Daniel Webster. We cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration...honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We say that we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union.... | |
 | William C. King - Biography - 1900 - 680 pages
...reformer might have done. Hear him as he pleads for the support of Congress. " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration...in 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... | |
 | John Watson Foster - United States - 1900 - 556 pages
...wisdom, and, with an evident consciousness of the greatness of the deed, he closed with these words : " The fiery trial through which we pass will light us...honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. . . . We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth. The way is plain, peaceful, generous,... | |
 | Frederick William Holls - Arbitration (International law) - 1900 - 606 pages
...statesman, Abraham Lincoln, ' we cannot escape history. \Ve, of this Conference and of this Committee, will be remembered in spite of ourselves — no personal...or insignificance can spare one or another of us.' chapter v Let me ask the honorable members of this Committee Speech of Mr. to approach the question... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Political Science - 1901 - 496 pages
...anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, aud then we shall save our country. " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. "We of this Congress and this Administration...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... | |
 | Grand Army of the Republic - 1901 - 738 pages
...remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance nor insignificance can spare us. The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. The way is plain — a way which, if followed, the world will forever appland and God must forever... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...prosperity, and perpetuate both indefinitely ? Is it doubted that we here — Congress and Executive — can secure its adoption ? Will not the good people respond...in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We tay we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union.... | |
 | Robert Dickinson Sheppard - 1903 - 198 pages
...anew. We must disenthral ourselves, and then we shall save our country. 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 412 pages
...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...in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignif1cance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us... | |
 | William Isaac Hull - Arbitration (International law) - 1908 - 540 pages
...statesman, Abraham Lincoln, 'We can not escape history.' We, of this conference and of this committee, will be remembered in spite of ourselves — no personal...or insignificance can spare one or another of us. "Let me ask the honorable members of this committee to approach the question before us in a practical... | |
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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... 
