 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1926 - 544 pages
...collaterals. Such exclusive and inflexible plan would surely become a new entanglement. Important pr1nc1ples may and must be inflexible. In the present situation,...to act when satisfied that action will be proper. 12th. (To General G. Weitzel.) I have seen your despatch to Colonel Hardie about the matter of prayers.... | |
 | Franklin W. Hart - 1926 - 12 pages
...embarrassment necessarily attending the solution of such national problems, and then closes by saying: "In the present situation, as the phrase goes, it...to act, when satisfied that action will be proper." Before retiring from the crowd, the President requested the serenading band to play "Dixie," saying,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1927 - 474 pages
...prescribed as to details and collaterals. Such exclusive and inflexible plan would surely become a new entanglement. Important principles may and must be...to act when satisfied that action will be proper. FABLES THE FARMER AND THE SKUNK WHEN I was a young man I used to know very well one Joe Wilson, who... | |
 | Frederick Trevor Hill - Presidents - 1928 - 320 pages
...become a new entanglement. Important principles may and must be inflexible. In the present situation it may be my duty to make some new announcement to...to act when satisfied that action will be proper. Fate was even then preparing to prevent that new announcement. But there is no doubt what it would... | |
 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - Presidents - 1917 - 518 pages
...prescribed as to details and collaterals. Such exclusive and inflexible plan would surely become a new entanglement. Important principles may and must be...to act when satisfied that action will be proper." A full generation has had cause to lament that that announcement was never to be made. On Good Friday,... | |
 | Richard N. Current - Biography & Autobiography - 1958 - 326 pages
...representing Lincoln's objectives. Before concluding his last speech, Lincoln enigmatically remarked: "In the present 'situation' as the phrase goes, it...to act, when satisfied that action will be proper." What new announcement, what new action, he had in mind, no one knows. The following day he sent a telegram... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1972 - 734 pages
...was contemplating "some new announcement to the people of the South." "I am considering," he said, "and shall not fail to act when satisfied that action will be proper." At Lincoln's last cabinet meeting a plan of reconstruction was discussed and left for subsequent consideration.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...prescribed as to details and colatterals. Such exclusive, and inflexible plan, would surely become a new entanglement. Important principles may, and must,...to act, when satisfied that action will be proper. Selected Bibliography WORKS OF LINCOLN ROY P. BASLER, MARION DOLORES PRATT, AND LLOYD A. DUNLAP, eds.,... | |
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State, and such important and sudden changes occur in the same State, and withal so new and unprecedented is the whole case that no exclusive and inflexible plan can safely be prescribed as to details and collaterals. Such exclusive and inflexible plan... 
