 | United States. President - Presidents - 1900 - 808 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...disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow -citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 276 pages
...we all do better? ' Object whatsoever is possible, still the question occurs, ' Can we do better ? ' The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 278 pages
...we all do better? ' Object whatsoever is possible, still the question occurs, ' Can we do better ? ' The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 384 pages
...if I read a brief lesson, which seems written for the hour. The words are as beautiful as emphatic. "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." These are the words of Abraham Lincoln.1 They are as full of vital force now as when he uttered them.... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Political Science - 1901 - 498 pages
...we all do better?' Object whatsoever is possible, still the question occurs, ' Can we do better ?' The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Political Science - 1901 - 496 pages
...Can we all do better?' Object whatsoever is possible, still the question occurs, ' Can we do better?' The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, aud then we shall save our country. " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. "We of this Congress... | |
 | Samuel Gibbs French - Biography & Autobiography - 1901 - 452 pages
...Harper's Ferry, and for which he was apotheosized and numbered among the saints. Mr. Lincoln said: "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. Our case is new. We must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1920 - 1124 pages
...this from Abraham Lincoln spoken just preceding the reconstruction period following the Civil War. "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must arise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew." The Executives of... | |
 | John George Nicolay - Presidents - 1902 - 604 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...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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 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...new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disinthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we can not 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. 
