 | United States. President - Presidents - 1900 - 808 pages
...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. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow -citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 276 pages
...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. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 384 pages
...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. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." These are the words of Abraham Lincoln.1 They are as full of vital force now as when he uttered them.... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 278 pages
...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. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered... | |
 | Mabel Hill - Constitutional history - 1901 - 492 pages
...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. "We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered... | |
 | Samuel Gibbs French - Biography & Autobiography - 1901 - 452 pages
...present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. Our case is new. We must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save the country." (Joel Parker Lecture at Harvard College.) These words indicate that the powers of the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 412 pages
...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. We must disenthrall...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 464 pages
...occasion is plied high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall...country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of tliis Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance... | |
 | Henry Bryan Binns - 1907 - 428 pages
...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. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." There follows an appeal to the imagination of Congress : We shall inevitably " be remembered in spite... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Devotional calendars - 1907 - 410 pages
...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. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Our fathers to their graves have gone, Their strife is past, their triumph won ; Rut sterner trials... | |
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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. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall... 
