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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... "
Lincoln, His Life and Time: Being the Life and Public Services of Abraham ... - Page 362
by Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1891 - 808 pages
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Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered

John Channing Briggs - History - 2005 - 396 pages
...We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or...honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union, The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The...
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Music for the Common Man : Aaron Copland during the Depression and War ...

Elizabeth B. Crist Assistant Professor of Musicology University of Texas at Austin - Music - 2005 - 267 pages
...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...or dishonor, to the latest generation. [. . .] We — even we here — hold the power and bear the responsibility." He was born in Kentucky, raised in...
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
...We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or...down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation." When Joshua Speed next came to visit, Lincoln reminded his old friend of the suicidal depression he...
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And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil War

Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history.. .the fiery trial through which we pass, will light...down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.. .In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free... We shall nobly save or meanly lose,...
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The Task of Criticism: Essays on Philosophy, History, and Community

John William Miller - History - 2005 - 372 pages
...history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. . . . The fiery trial through which we pass, will light...down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation" (p. 415). 5. One of the fundamental commitments of democracy is to procedure. In "Utopia and the State"...
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American Science Fiction TV: Star Trek, Stargate, and Beyond

Jan Johnson-Smith - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 322 pages
...we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation. We shall nobly win or meanly lose our last best hope of Earth.' 26 Superficially,...
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And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil War

Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history...the fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation...In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free...We shall nobly save or...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...We, of this Congress and this Administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or...honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The...
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Lincoln's Defense of Politics: The Public Man and His Opponents in the ...

Thomas E. Schneider - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 241 pages
...We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or...honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The...
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Empire and Slavery in American Literature, 1820-1865

Eric J. Sundquist - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 262 pages
...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...honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The...
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