 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...  Anecdotes of Public Men - Page 170by John Wien Forney - 1873Full view - About this book
 | John Channing Briggs - History - 2005 - 396 pages
...Lincoln takes on — confronts and inhabits — the thinking of his audience: Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration,...The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union, The world will not... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
...nature of the edict. "Fellow-citizens," he had said in his annual message in December, "•we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration,...The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation." When Joshua Speed next came to visit, Lincoln... | |
 | John William Miller - History - 2005 - 372 pages
...force of his position regarding history, the words of Abraham Lincoln: "Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves." Those moments in which we come face to face with the inescapable consequences of our denning commitments... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disinthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens,...The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not... | |
 | Thomas E. Schneider - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 241 pages
...anew. We must disenthrall our selves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration,...The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not... | |
 | Eric J. Sundquist - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 262 pages
...— even though true freedom for African Americans lay far in the future: Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration...The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not... | |
 | Gordon Lloyd - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 446 pages
...history that great Republican, Abraham Lincoln, said: "Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We... will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal...The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation... We — even we here — hold the power and bear... | |
 | Ian Bellany - History - 2013 - 250 pages
...for our deliberation. I quote, paraphrasing slightly: We cannot escape history. We of this meeting will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal...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 say we are for Peace.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - History - 2007 - 60 pages
...stop the genocide in Darfur. The words of President Lincoln speak to us from the ages: "[W]e cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration,...The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I yield back the... | |
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