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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... "
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Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man

Howard Pollack - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 734 pages
...at least saved the assembled Republicans from being compelled to listen to Lincoln's brooding words: 'Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of...Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves.' " Notwithstanding Busbey's rhetoric about all the "fine, patriotic and thoroughly American composers,"...
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To Be a Man: Letters to My Grandson

Charlton Heston - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 127 pages
...dishonor to the last generation." And, "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. We must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall...ourselves . . . and then we shall save our country." And we did, thanks to Mr. Lincoln. He freed the slaves, found ways and men to win the war, and was...
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Banners to the Breeze: The Kentucky Campaign, Corinth, and Stones River

Earl J. Hess - History - 2000 - 296 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." Lincoln demonstrated his genius for grasping the moment and urging others to follow his course when...
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Repairing the "March of Mars": The Civil War Diaries of John Samuel Apperson ...

John Samuel Apperson - Hospitals - 2001 - 684 pages
...literary quality of Lincoln's "imbecile" speech, see this excerpt: "As our cause is new, so we must think anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall...country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history... .In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give...
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John Dewey's Liberalism: Individual, Community, and Self-development

Daniel M. Savage - Philosophy - 2002 - 244 pages
...occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. As our case is new, so must we think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."" Dewey's theory of art. Dewey's theory of individuality is inseparable from his theory of art — "a...
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Biological warfare defense vaccine research and development ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations - History - 2002 - 142 pages
...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 save our country." Thinking anew requires confronting hard, new realities. There is no absolute immunity to biological...
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Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender

Ralph Nader - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 420 pages
...War, Abraham Lincoln's words transcended even that epic divide when he said: "As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." Small political starts start small, as did the Green Party. In a big country it is not easy to start...
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Chemical and biological defense: DOD medical readiness : hearing ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations - History - 2002 - 68 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. My view is that we're all being asked to think anew. And obviously the military is part of that. So...
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Eco-terrorism and Lawlessness on the National Forests: Oversight ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health - Social Science - 2002 - 140 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." Although the occasion is quite different today, these words are quite applicable. I look forward to...
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Abraham Lincoln Sculpture Created by Avard T. Fairbanks

Avard Tennyson Fairbanks - 2002 - 184 pages
...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 save our country. We cannot escape history: We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of...
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