 | United States - 1909 - 642 pages
...Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance cam spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through...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.... | |
 | Slavery - 1863 - 320 pages
...Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress, will be remembered in spite of ourselves, is o personal significance or insignificance can spare...trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation. We say that we are for the Union. The world will not... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1911 - 170 pages
...then we shall save our country. Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Con- 20 gress and this administration will be remembered in spite...or insignificance can spare one or another of us. Th£ fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor - Executive power - 1912 - 616 pages
...We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. . . . 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 meanly... | |
 | John Bigelow - France - 1909 - 658 pages
...he finally resolved to propose the abolition of slavery: "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.'' Upon you, Mr. President, has the guardianship of that honor and the heritage of that great man devolved.... | |
 | Jonathan Todd Hobson - Dayton (Ohio) - 1913 - 136 pages
...history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. . . . The fiery trial through which we pass will- light...in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.— Message to Congress, December, 1862. ... | |
 | Clark Smith Beardslee - 1914 - 250 pages
...enhearten all the world. He closes his appeal with these following words: — "Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration...through which we pass will light us down, in honor or in dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that... | |
 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - 1916 - 500 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...or insignificance can spare one or another of us. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union.... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy - World War, 1914-1918 - 1917 - 136 pages
...strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies. Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. No personal significance or insignificance can spare...in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last,... | |
 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - 1917 - 508 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...or insignificance can spare one or another of us. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union.... | |
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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... 
