 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 328 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 - Presidents - 1907 - 326 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 say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The... | |
 | Louise Bachelder - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 76 pages
...history. We and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through...honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. . . . We — even we here—- hold the power and bear the The President seated at a table, photographed by Alexander... | |
 | Bruce Catton - Education - 1998 - 452 pages
...themselves from the dogmas of the past. To give freedom to the slave was to preserve it for all others, and "the fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor to the latest generation."1» It was no use. The peculiar institution's inviolability ran across the North as well... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 220 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... | |
 | Hugh Tulloch - History - 1999 - 276 pages
...history. We of this Congress and 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, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure... | |
 | Marianne Williamson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2000 - 292 pages
...citizens, we cannot escape history. We . . . will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another...pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation. . . . We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth." Americans... | |
 | Earl J. Hess - History - 2000 - 296 pages
...demonstrated his genius for grasping the moment and urging others to follow his course when he said that 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... | |
 | Charlton Heston - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 127 pages
..."We . . . cannot escape history," Lincoln said. "[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." And, "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. We must... | |
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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... 
