 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
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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... 
