 | William C. King - Biography - 1900 - 680 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...in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure... | |
 | John Watson Foster - United States - 1900 - 556 pages
...wisdom, and, with an evident consciousness of the greatness of the deed, he closed with these words : " The fiery trial through which we pass will light us...honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. . . . We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth. The way is plain, peaceful, generous,... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Political Science - 1901 - 496 pages
..."We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another...trial through which we pass will light us down, in honour or dishonour, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget... | |
 | Grand Army of the Republic - 1901 - 738 pages
...remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance nor insignificance can spare us. The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. The way is plain — a way which, if followed, the world will forever appland and God must forever... | |
 | John George Nicolay - Presidents - 1902 - 604 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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...We, of this Congress and this Administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or...in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We tay we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union.... | |
 | Francis Curtis - United States - 1904 - 568 pages
...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 forget that we say this. We know how 415 to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We — even we here — hold the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 436 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 412 pages
...administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignif1cance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 464 pages
...We of tliis 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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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... 
