 | William C. King - Biography - 1900 - 680 pages
...reformer might have done. Hear him as he pleads for the support of Congress. " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this...in 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... | |
 | Charles Rufus Skinner - Flags - 1900 - 508 pages
...American heart — Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. — Daniel Webster. We cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this...in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We say that we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the... | |
 | John Watson Foster - United States - 1900 - 556 pages
...wisdom, and, with an evident consciousness of the greatness of the deed, he closed with these words : " The fiery trial through which we pass will light us...honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. . . . We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth. The way is plain, peaceful, generous,... | |
 | Frederick William Holls - Arbitration (International law) - 1900 - 606 pages
...statesman, Abraham Lincoln, ' we cannot escape history. \Ve, of this Conference and of this Committee, will be remembered in spite of ourselves — no personal...or insignificance can spare one or another of us.' chapter v Let me ask the honorable members of this Committee Speech of Mr. to approach the question... | |
 | 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
...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 this...in 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.... | |
 | Hugh Tulloch - History - 1999 - 276 pages
...their secretarial assistance. ix Fellow citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Congress and administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves....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
...Lincoln, in his 1862 Annual Message, echo to us now: "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We . . . will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal...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... | |
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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... 
