 The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.  Abraham Lincoln - Page 354by Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 542 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joel Parker - Constitutional law - 1869 - 118 pages
...a brief lesson which seems as if written for the hour. The words are as beautiful as emphatic. " ' The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country.'" " These are the words of Abraham Lincoln.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 826 pages
...for the hour. The words are as beautiful as emphatic : The dogmas of the quiet past are inadéquate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we musfr rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall... | |
 | George Washington Julian - Civil rights - 1872 - 508 pages
...his late message, that " the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present ; " that "as our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew ; " and that " we must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." I believe no commander... | |
 | George Washington Julian - History - 1872 - 512 pages
...administration. He saw then, what the President has finally discovered and told us in his late message, that " the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present; " that "as our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew;" and that "we must disenthrall ourselves,... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Bookbinding - 1873 - 462 pages
...we are going through on this line if it takes three years more." From his second annual message : " The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthral ourselves, and then we shall save our country. " Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history.... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Bookbinding - 1873 - 462 pages
...we are going through on this line if it takes three years more." From his second annual message : " The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthral ourselves, and then we shall save our country. " Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history.... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1875 - 448 pages
...if I read a brief lesson, which seems written for the hour. The words are as beautiful as emphatic. "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...new, so we must think anew and act . anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." These are the words of Abraham Lincoln.1... | |
 | James Moore (M.D.) - 1875 - 582 pages
...rebellion, and restore the Union. The President concludes in language dear to every loyal heart. " The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulties, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think and act anew. We... | |
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