 | Earl J. Hess - 2000 - 296 pagina’s
...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 us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. ... In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom... | |
 | David J Eicher - 2002 - 992 pagina’s
...shifting goals. "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal...trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the last generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 1995 - 188 pagina’s
..."Fellow-citizens," he warned, "we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal...trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation."38 If one detects here a conflict in Lincoln's history... | |
 | Gary L. Bunker - 2001 - 410 pagina’s
...I beg to state that we cannot hope to escape History, who will be after us with a very sharp stick. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. My own hopes of being spared on the latter count are consequently dashed, in which I share a disappointment... | |
 | G. S. Boritt - 2001 - 356 pagina’s
..."Fellow-citizens," he said in 1862, "we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal...trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation."40 To Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton he read aloud... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations - 2002 - 212 pagina’s
...another conflict Lincoln said, "We cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal...trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation." Those same words apply to us here today. A century ago,... | |
 | William D. Pederson - 2003 - 304 pagina’s
...American war: Fellow Citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal...The fiery trial through which we pass will light us .... in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. Eighty years after Lincoln delivered that message,... | |
 | 2003 - 260 pagina’s
...is new, so must we think anew and act anew. . . . Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. . . . The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. . . . We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best,... | |
 | Charles M. Hubbard - 2003 - 270 pagina’s
...December 1 862, he knew that he could make no stronger appeal than the half-promise-half-warning that "the fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation." Lincoln's papers show that he received numerous requests... | |
 | David Sievert Lavender - 2003 - 430 pagina’s
...Abraham Lincoln advised a beleaguered North in December 1862, "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us." If we do not learn from history, we are fated to learn the lessons again. What then is this beyond... | |
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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... 
