| Luther Emerson Robinson - 1918 - 376 pages
...precisely so much you increase the demand for, and wages of, white labor. . . . 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... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy - World War, 1914-1918 - 1918 - 144 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,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1918 - 976 pages
...careful in the future to keep before them this warning of Abraham Lincoln upon another occasion. " No personal significance or insignificance can spare...down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation." A TRUMPET CALL (From the Rochester Post-Express) Colonel George Harvey's patriotic article, entitled... | |
| Mayors - 1918 - 36 pages
...the words in which President Lincoln addressed Congress in 1862. He said: "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration...ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance will save the one or the other of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor... | |
| John Drinkwater - 1918 - 84 pages
...preservation ' of the Union. Hook: I entirely agree. Lincoln : Gentlemen, we cannot escape history. We of this administration will be remembered in spite of...or insignificance can spare one or another of us. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the... | |
| World War, 1914-1918 - 1918 - 74 pages
...somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough. — Robert Louis Stevenson. No personal significance or insignificance can spare...or another of us. The fiery trial through which we are passing will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. . . . We shall nobly... | |
| William Herbert Hobbs - Europe - 1919 - 474 pages
...are at all times ready for war." — GEORGE WASHINGTON. "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,... | |
| John Drinkwater - American drama - 1919 - 140 pages
...preservation of the Union. Hook: I entirely agree. Lincoln: Gentlemen, we cannot escape history. We of this administration will be remembered in spite of...or insignificance can spare one or another of us. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the... | |
| Andrew Fleming West - Education - 1919 - 104 pages
...Independence and of the glorious defence of Verdun. Listen and you shall hear Lincoln's answering voice: "The fiery trial through which we pass will light...in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth." Let us listen again in the quiet of... | |
| William Estabrook Chancellor - Sociology - 1919 - 444 pages
...disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us...in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth." — Annual Message to Congress, December,... | |
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