 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...  Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 405by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...we shall save our country." "Fellow citizens," Lincoln concluded, "ive 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." And so, in the end, "we shall nobly... | |
 | Harold Holzer, Edna G. Medford, Frank J. Williams - History - 2006 - 180 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 generations. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.'' 7 For weeks, General... | |
 | Frank Van der Linden - History - 2007 - 332 pages
...anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and...honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world knows, we do know how to save it. We— even we here — hold the power... | |
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