 | Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...can we all do better?" Object whatsoever is possible, still the question recurs "can we do better?" The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, wt cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this Administration, will be remembered in spite... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...can we all do better ?" Object whatsoever is possible, still the question recurs, "can we do better?" The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthral ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history.... | |
 | Abott A. Abott - 1864 - 104 pages
...can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better,' but 'can we all do better ?' " The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As ur case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
..."Can we alt do better?" Object whatsoever is possible, still the question recurs, " Can we do better?" The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and jire must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must... | |
 | Charles Daniel Drake - Enslaved persons - 1864 - 446 pages
...all do better ? ' Object whatsoever is possible, still the question recurs, ' can we do better ? ' The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulties, and we must rise with the occasion. , As our case is new, so we must think anew. We must... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1885 - 316 pages
...we all do better?" Object whatsoever is possible, still the question recurs, " can we do better ?" The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves.... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1865 - 676 pages
...can we all do better?" Object whatsoever is possible, still the question recurs " can we do better ?" The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, let cannot escape hisU>ry. We, of this Congress and this Administration, will be remembered in spite... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 680 pages
...can wo all do better?" Object whatsoever is possible, still the question recurs "can we do better?" 865 tc« cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this Administration, will be remembered in spite... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - United States - 1865 - 1244 pages
...the following appeal, which was as impressive as it was original, both in thought and in language: " The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. We cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of... | |
 | 1865 - 654 pages
...the expense of the nation, be easily surpassed in the depth and earnestness of its entreaty : — " The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disinthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our j country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history.... | |
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. 
